Synopses & Reviews
Poetry. Women's Studies. LGBT Studies. BODYMAP continues Leah's meditation on survival and what it means to be a queer woman of colour in North America, while also striving to document small moments of the body's resistance, and legacy. BODYMAP is divided into five sections. Evidence opens with poems that document transformative love and desire through a queer partnership's evolution and dissolution. Crip World contains poems exploring sick and disabled queer experience through body stories. Hard Girls is a mapping of tough femininity in the bodies of the poet's lovers and comrades. Wrong Is Not Yours contains the political, from the struggles of friends crossing the border to the choice made in claiming a Sri Lankan name. What kind of ancestor do you want to be? The final section, explores ancestry and queer parenting.
Synopsis
Bodymap continues Leah's meditation on survival and what it means to be a queer woman of colour in North America, while also striving to document small moments of the body's resistance, and legacy. Bodymap is divided into five sections. Evidence opens with poems that document transformative love and desire through a queer partnership's evolution and dissolution. Crip World contains poems exploring sick and disabled queer experience through body stories. Hard Girls is a mapping of tough femininity in the bodies of the poet's lovers and comrades. Wrong Is Not Yours contains the political, from the struggles of friends crossing the border to the choice made in claiming a Sri Lankan name. What kind of ancestor do you want to be? The final section, explores ancestry and queer parenting.
Synopsis
Finalist for the Triangle Awards, Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, 2015
Shortlisted for the ReLit Award, Poetry, 2016
In Bodymap, Lambda Award-winner Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha sings a queer disabled femme-of-colour love song filled with hard femme poetics and disability justice. In this volume, Leah Lakshmi maps hard and vulnerable terrains of queer desire, survivorhood, transformative love, sick and disabled queer genius and all the homes we claim and deserve.
About the Author
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is the author of two poetry collections published by TSAR Publications, LOVE CAKE (2011), winner of the Lambda Award, and BODYMAP (2015). Her poems have appeared in Prism International, SAMAR, Jaggery, glittertongue, AS:US, Locked Horn, Nepatlera, and 580 Split. She's also performed at NYU Pride Week, Carleton University, Ottawa, University of Toronto, and gave keynote performance at UC Riverside's TABLA conference of queer and trans students. She continues to tour and perform widely. In 2013, she was named one of the Autostraddle Alternative Hot Queer 105.