Hyperfixations

<p>Over the course of a decade Belinda Roddie wrote poetry for a freelance writing blog they maintained. A few years later they reviewed said poetry and found that a specific set of themes motifs and perspectives tended to crop up time and time again. Out of over two thousand poems Roddie selected seventy-five of them to reflect a worldview where food and drink music and dance queerness and trans identity religion and its consequences and social justice were prioritized. In a way they appeared to be topics that the author most hyperfixated on.</p><p><br></p><p>From The Human Chandelier to Daughter of Pasiphae to Your Body is Full of Stars to Bless the Bones of California Belinda Roddie's debut poetry collection explores both language and narrative in a bold and brutally honest way leaving a little something for every enthusiast of the craft. Above all else it promotes love of others and love of self against any and all odds.</p>