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Venus in Transit

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Debauchery, damnation, dyke divorce, and divine delight—from New York hotel room silk to haunted Georgia lake water, these lesbian epistolary poems are letters to lovers, mothers, queer ancestors, ...
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  • 08 June 2027
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Debauchery, damnation, dyke divorce, and divine delight—from New York hotel room silk to haunted Georgia lake water, these lesbian epistolary poems are letters to lovers, mothers, queer ancestors, and the many selves that you move through when questions of belonging become less interesting than the transit itself between lover to lover, gender to gender, and place to place. From red-lipsticked righteous rage to aubades for the monsters that lurk after love ends, these poems ask: What is identity when the unrecognizable and unnamable are the things that most feel like home? Is domesticity more yearn-worthy if subverted and queered? Is a love poem inevitably also an ode to defying grief? Against a backdrop of the ripe haze of a mean Americana, this book seductively writhes through the becoming of new selves and the realization that love, at its core, is a constantly mutating beast. Thank the devil survival looks so good in red velvet, and thank the more arcane entities that words, like stilettos, are also always weapons.

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Price: $9.99
Pages: 128
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Imprint: Red Hen Press
Publication Date: 08 June 2027
Trim Size: 9.25 X 7.50 in
ISBN: 9781636285498
Format: eBook
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Leia K. Bradley (they/she) is a backwoods Georgia-born femme poet, performance artist, and professor with an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. They have taught Gender & Sexuality, Monster Studies, and Creative Writing all over NYC and abroad. She has writing in POETRY, Variant, DIAGRAM, Southern Humanities Review, BOOTH, GASHER, Florida Review, West Trade Review, Black Warrior Review, and more, with her poem “Settle(d)” chosen as the Editor’s Choice Best Overall pick for Penumbra Magazine’s 2022 Pride issue. They were nominated by Miniskirt Magazine for a Pushcart Prize for their lesbian werewolf short story “Moon Pie,” and are the 2023 Featured Author of Anodyne Magazine for FLINTA* Health. After climbing out from the coffin of her first divorce, she is accepting love and lust letters in NYC through her Bluesky @LeiaKBradley or Instagram @MadameMort. Leia K. Bradley (they/she) is a Southern femme poet, professor, and dyke divorcée who rides her broomstick between NYC and the Georgia backwoods.