No Spare People

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Poetry. Women's Studies / Gender Studies. Writing About the South. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>No Spare People</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> documents the joys and perils of a tiny mother-daughter family navigating life on the margins. From poems about finding autonomy as a queer unpartnered parent by choice in the South to those chronicling a generation's economic instability Hoover</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>rejects so-called acceptable losses stemming from inequalities of gender race and class. The book asks what happens to the woman no longer willing to live a lie? How does language invent not only identity but possibility?</span></p>