Landscape with Sex and Violence

<p>The poems in <em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Landscape with Sex and Violence</em> explore what it means to exist within a rape culture so entrenched that it can't be separated from the physical landscapes in which it enacts itself. Lyrically complex and startling-yet forthright and unflinching- these poems address rape abortion sex work and other subjects frequently omitted from male-dominated literary traditions without forsaking the pleasures of being embodied or the value of personal freedom of moonlight and of hope. Throughout the topography and mythology of California as well as the uses and failures of language itself are players in what it means to be a woman a sexual being and a trauma survivor in contemporary America.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>