{"product_id":"antibody-isbn-9780771020476","title":"antibody","description":"\u003cb\u003eA powerful follow-up to the Governor General’s Literary Award shortlisted \u003ci\u003esulphurtongue.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eantibody \u003c\/i\u003eis a protest, a whisper network, a reclamation of agency, and a ritual for building a survivable world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eantibody\u003c\/i\u003e mobilizes body horror as resistance, refusing to sanitize the atrocities of sexual violence or to silence its survivors. Challenging myths of “perfect” victimhood, this collection honours the messy, rageful, queer, witchy, disabled, and kinky grief work of enduring trauma and learning to want to live.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          if we must be unnatural\u003cbr\u003e          unliving            monstrous\u003cbr\u003e          let us feed.\u003cb\u003ePraise for Rebecca Salazar and \u003ci\u003eantibody\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rebecca Salazar’s \u003ci\u003eantibody\u003c\/i\u003e is a future classic of feminist verse. This book is so many things at once and powerfully so: ode, elegy, lamentation, manifesto, rallying call, theoretical treatise. I envision this book not so much arriving to the scene of Canadian poetry as remaking it completely.\" --Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of \u003ci\u003eCoexistence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Rebecca Salazar’s\u003ci\u003e antibody\u003c\/i\u003e is an impressive collection of dualities and contradictions. The holy exists within the unholy, the spiritual within the body, pleasure within pain, dark within light, healing within trauma. In this doubleness, we find complexity that does not oversimplify women’s experiences of gendered violence, rape, and abuse, and the threats that keep them silent. Salazar’s poems allow the speaker and their body to be more than just their trauma, more than what they can give to others: the power of these poems is that they luxuriate in their desires, in the lusciously gory, in magical darkness, in sensual pleasure. Cutting through silence with electric humour, pulsing rhythm, and intoxicating language, Salazar’s poetry becomes both refusal and reclamation, exclaiming 'let none choose for me when i choose to breathe.'\" --Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Good Arabs\u003c\/i\u003eREBECCA SALAZAR (she\/they) is a queer, disabled, and racialized Latinx writer currently living on the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik people. Their first full-length collection \u003ci\u003esulphurtongue \u003c\/i\u003e(McClelland \u0026amp; Stewart) was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, the New Brunswick Book Awards, the Atlantic Book Awards, and the League of Canadian Poets’ Pat Lowther Memorial Award. \u003ci\u003eantibody\u003c\/i\u003e is their second poetry collection.","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300714696933,"sku":"NP9780771020476","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771020476.jpg?v=1767721662","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/antibody-isbn-9780771020476","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}