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Penned during a season in Greece, this collection of poetry, photographs, and visual art is a study in different notions of tenderness & connection. How do humans love one another? The Numinous? Flora and fauna? The world at large? What can love heal? And-perhaps more difficult to ask-how does it fail us? The artistry & originality of this book are focused on embracing & exploring the earnestness & sentimentality that many students of poetry h...

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Sexting Ghosts is a collection of poems by Joanna C. Valente. 'In Sexting Ghosts, Joanna Valente invites us to join them in their haunted psychiatrist's chair for a cinematic Q&A, with the ghosts and gods of the future past. These poems together form an epic flush with oblique strategies for survival. Valente's arguments sear then soften, become inquiries, persistent efforts to either understand or to cut ties with what time has shed. Ghosts a...

She is not dead, but sleeping, Jesus says in the Gospel of Luke, like the sick girl of that verse, the speakers of Joanna Valente's sharp and urgent ¿Marys of the Seä¿ toss and turn through a series of feverish nightmares that refract lived experiences into prophetic and wild new imaginings. Preoccupied with the consequences of mothering and not-mothering, these fifty-three poems trenchantly interrogate sexual violence and its aftermath, linge...

The essays and poems contained within this anthology are not only compelling but also harrowing stories of sexual assault. None of these pieces were easy to write--and were born out of traumatizing and terrible experiences. CCM believes in providing a safe space within the literary community where we can not only talk about painful experiences and issues but also necessary considering the current political climate. Contributors include Hillary...