Phases

<p class=ql-align-center><strong><em>Suppose you finally say </em>I'm my own person<em>. </em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong><em>Suppose you say </em>No one else is in charge of me<em>. </em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong><em>Suppose you tell yourself </em>I'm nobody's bad girl<em>. </em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong><em>Suppose you're that kind of woman. Just suppose. </em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify>In this new revised expanded edition of her acclaimed debut poetry collection <strong><em>Phases</em></strong> Belinda Betker deftly captures what it is like for those who don't fit within rigid notions of what it means to be a boy or a girl. She takes readers on a luminous journey of a young girl's coming-of-age her burgeoning sexuality an unhappy marriage the triumphant release of coming out and the liberating power of drag. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>In these poems readers will find a celestial and transcendent re-discovering of the self; an unravelling of society's expectations of gender love and desire and how these falsehoods threaten to eclipse our truth. <strong><em>Phases</em></strong> is mercurial and unpredictable a celebration of the non-conformist in each of us.</p><p><br></p>