The Rise of Genderqueer: Poems: 7 (Mineral Point Poetry)

We are witnessing the birth of an extraordinary voice in these poems --Roy G. Guzmán author of Restored Mural for OrlandoA truly incomparable collection The Rise of Genderqueer constructs a voice with unmitigated and authentic yearning. Its poems soak ink into page from margin to margin pressing into the readers assumptions about gender unmercifully. These poems demand carry authentic wisdom deliver keen argument and disarm with sly wit. Wren Hanks challenges the status quo as neatly as a flower slid into the barrel of a rifle. These are utterly convincing prose forms studded with rhetoric hes deftly remastered and sampled from our culture and conversations right now.Ill never be denatured // I am nature Hankss poems insist as the reader bears witness to a bigger world light flooding into every corner revealing what has always been true vigorous and expansive.