A Shape We've Yet to Name by Mya Matteo Alexice

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A Shape We've Yet to Name by Mya Matteo AlexiceRendered highly flammable into a world of overwhelming social constructs, expectations, and historical legacies, Mya Matteo Alexice inhabits many things in A Shape Weve Yet to Name. Refusing to be embodied the way others expect, they transgress, shapeshifting into realms of the celestial, the ancient, and beyond in order to find personhood unmoored from x & y. They witness the horrors of forced conformity; they find sanctuary in the thresholds of

Incisively humorous and probingly curious

in equal measure

Richard Wright

We Contain Landscapes introduces a speaker who “will not turn away from the ache of this world

current Brooklyn Poet Laureate Tina Chang

to alter my mood

At the bottom of everything

what has been lost—and each chapter engages in this essential project of world-building

Božičević continually greets herself as a stranger

if somewhat controversial

Among its questions

What a gift to be reminded of the capacity for song in every breath”—Jamila WoodsPatrick Rosal is the author of four previous books of poetry