Synopses & Reviews
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“This book touched me deeply in its unflinching truth....Heartache is a fact of life, this book says, and you are not your body. Utter permission. Beauty wherever you need to find it.” Morgan Parker, author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
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“These poems make me so happy and sad. I couldn’t stop texting lines to my friends, just so they see how well Espinoza has written down humanity, how excellent of a poet we have in our midst.” Danez Smith, author of [insert] boy
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“Espinoza’s debut is a searing interrogation of the world and the self at once....a storm to ravage and rearrange us from our crushing certainties. This book doesn’t need a blurb. It simply needs to be read.” Ocean Vuong, author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds
About the Author
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza is a trans woman poet living in California. Her work has been featured in Poetry, Denver Quarterly, American Poetry Review, Poem-a-Day, Lambda Literary, PEN America, The Offing, and elsewhere. Her full-length collection There Should Be Flowers was published by Civil Coping Mechanisms in 2016. She is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at UC Riverside.