My Body Bonded With Super Glue

In Lisa Tellor-Kelley's debut poetry chapbook My Body Bonded With Super Glue the poet draws from deeply personal experience to re-examine and challenge societal expectations around female identity body image and breast cancer. In a world that still demands that a woman who survives breast cancer be seen as a martyr or a mystic Tellor-Kelly refuses to be either. Instead the speaker insists I don't want a nurse. I want a lover. These poems demand recognition of female sexuality and physical desire while taking the reader on an unflinching and erotic journey through mastectomy radiation breast reconstruction fear rage loss passion love and tequila.