To Love a Fierceness so Bright

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Chelsea Fanning's debut poetry book </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>To Love a Fierceness So Bright</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a fiercely nuanced portrait of womanhood. F</span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>ull of witchcraft grit ferocity and tenderness</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)></span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Fanning dissects with piercing precision the power names hold - both those that we take up willingly and those thrust upon us. Here you will find the virgin and the slut the hysterical woman and the monstrous female. Equal parts unsettling and edifying this fevered collection invites us to reclaim the</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> narratives that seek to constrain us and to re-form them from all our bones. </span></p>