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I am a butterfly at half-mast. Muscles coiled like springs. I have not unwound yet, " writes Julie Marie Wade in Otherwise. In this series of intimate, braided essays written throughout her 30s, Wade traces her own unwinding and becoming through probing lyricism. As a daughter, lover, lesbian, and writer, she invites readers on a journey of self-discovery framed by memory, literature, and popular culture. Touching and tender, empathic and insi...

Go ahead, tell me-what words do you love? For to love a word is to love the sound it makes. To love a word is to hear the bells in it, to use a word out of love is to become a bell-ringer, which is also to say, a campanologist. In this book-length essay, Julie Marie Wade writes a sonic autobiography, a gorgeous inquiry into language, sound, and history.

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You have a history, and a body. You are a history, and a body. Your body has (is) a history, too. As a girl, Julie Marie Wade was uninterested in makeup, boy-watching, and other trappings of conventional girlhood, much to her mother's disappointment. Grace Kelly and Marilyn Monroe-movie stars immortalized as feminine ideals, even as they both died tragically and young-were lodestars that threw Wade's own definition of beauty into relief as she...

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A lively addition to the Marie Alexander Poetry Series, these prose poems pulse with kitsch and candor.

Wade's self-aware, grief-inflected essays attempt to answer the question-what have you given up in order to become who you are?

Lambda Award-winning memoir is a surreal debut collection of coming out and coming of age, family rupture and life-changing love.

Why SIX? Because the collection is composed of six poems. And because the perspective in this collection shifts like a kaleidoscope, each image viewable from six possible angles. And because these poems, like the prevalent hexagons of the natural world-honeycombs, for instance-derive strength from their compression and their accumulation. "I call six times just to be sure you heard, " this speaker announces on the first page. These poems are a...