Summary
A tender debut poetry collection that examines the queer, sick body as a reaction to an ill world and asks it how to move on toward hope.
Jason Purcell’s debut collection of poems rests at the intersection of queerness and illness, staking a place for the queer body that has been made sick through living in this world. Part poetic experiment and part memoir, Swollening attempts to diagnose what has been undiagnosable, tracing an uneven path from a lifetime of swallowing bad fee…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781551528854 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1551528851 |
| Author: | Jason Purcell |
| Publisher: | Arsenal Pulp Press |
| Imprint: | Arsenal Pulp Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2022 |
| Weight: | 275g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 153mm |
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Critics Review
“In Swollening, Purcell tears open and probes beneath the physical with precision, only to stitch it back up for intimacy–viscerally encapsulating the push and pull, shrink and swell of being embodied. A welcome debut by a sophisticated and promising writer.” –Vivek Shraya, author of even this page is white and I’m Afraid of Men
About The Author
Jason Purcell
Jason Purcell is a writer and musician from amiskwacîwâskahikan, Treaty 6, (Edmonton, Alberta), where they are also the co-owner of Glass Bookshop. As a chronically ill writer, they write at the intersection of queerness and illness and is the author of the chapbook A Place More Hospitable (Anstruther Press). Swollening is their first full-length collection.
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