Unfurl

A queer disabled love song to trees and beavers tremors and dreams <i>Unfurl</i> explores the pulsing core and porous edges of survival sorrow and dreaming. Blending poetry and creative nonfiction emotion and activist thinking Eli Clare invites us to unfurl ourselves into the lovely multitude of genders beyond the binary of woman and man the fierceness of street protest and the long slow time of granite. He sings to aquifers. Wrestles with the aftermath of child abuse and his family's legacy as white settlers occupying Dakota homelands. He leans into history. Calls the names of the living and the dead. Connects his own tremoring body to a world full of tremors-earthquakes jackhammers quaking aspens. <i>Unfurl</i> reveals deep queer kinships between human and more-than-human sentient and nonsentient. At every juncture these poems and essays embrace porousness and the power of dreaming. Ultimately <i>Unfurl</i> is an invitation to rebellion and joy.