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Selected by Fady Joudah as a winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, Jos Charles's revolutionary second collection of poetry, feeld, is a lyrical unraveling of the circuitry of gender and speech, defiantly making space for bodies that have been historically denied their own vocabulary. "i care so much abot the whord i cant reed." In feeld, Charles stakes her claim on the language available to speak about trans experience, reckoning with the narratives that have come before by reclaiming the language of the past. In Charles's electrifying transliteration of English -- Chaucerian in affect, but revolutionary in effect -- what is old is made new again. "gendre is not the tran organe / gendre is yes a hemorage." "did u kno not a monthe goes bye / a tran i kno doesnt dye.



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Jos Charles

Jos Charles is a trans poet, editor, and author of , a winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, selected by Fady Joudah and , a finalist for the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry.



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