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After two years in an intense relationship that breaks apart, Kristen E. Nelson is left to pick up the pieces. In the absence of her lover, she imagines, she collects impassioned break-up stories from friends, and she writes. In the Away Time is an evocative book of epistolary prose poems that attempt to confront, process, and reanimate the dead relationship over a six-month period of the aftermath. Through time and space, these intimate lyric vignettes construct a lush, immersive, and devastating portrait of queer desire and longing grounded in the specificity of one lived experience.
Price: $16.00
Pages: 92
Publisher: Fonograf Editions
Imprint: Autofocus Books
Publication Date:
23 April 2024
Trim Size: 8.00 X 5.00 in
ISBN: 9781957392295
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
POETRY / LGBT
Kristen E. Nelson is a queer writer, performer, and community builder. In addition to In the Away Time, she is the author of the length of this gap (Damaged Goods, August 2018) and two chapbooks: sometimes I gets lost and is grateful for noises in the dark (Dancing Girl, 2017) and Write, Dad (Unthinkable Creatures, 2012). She has published creative and critical writing in Feminist Studies, Bombay Gin, Denver Quarterly, Drunken Boat, Tarpaulin Sky Journal, Trickhouse, and Everyday Genius, among others. Kristen is the founder of Casa Libre en la Solana, a non-profit writing center in Tucson, Arizona, where she worked as the Executive Director for 14 years and the co-founder of Four Queens with Selah Saterstrom. Kristen is currently a Ph.D. student and graduate student instructor at the University of California – Santa Cruz in the Literature Department’s creative/critical writing concentration.