Bøker i Cowles Poetry Prize Winner-serien

Documents the construction of a queer femme self in the hostile territory of American late capitalism. Its speaker encounters darkness - in the form of violence perpetrated by both individuals and by societal systems of power and oppression - and yet, rejects the narratives articulated by that violence, celebrating instead softness and gentleness.

With attention to the Japanese occupation, the Korean War and its aftermath, these poems reflect on the sounds, ideas and histories of the Korean peninsula.

Offers an investigation of the language used to house descriptions of the body. Written after Bolden's radical hysterectomy, these stunning poems set out to expose the fissures in the foundations of the language we use to define human bodies and their behaviours.