{"product_id":"9781551529677","title":"a body more tolerable","description":"Author: jaye simpson\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781551529677\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Arsenal Pulp Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Jun 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 96\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Finalist, Lambda Literary Awards 2026, Transgender Poetry**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFerocious and vulnerable poems about redefining acts of creation, destruction, deconstruction, and recreation, from a singular Indigiqueer point of view.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ea body more tolerable\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of powerful and haunting poems combining faerie tales, mythology, and a self-divinised female rage. Divided into three parts, the book examines Indigenous grief, trans identity, and frustrated desires in ways that reject perception. Gone is the soft, kind, gentle girl that author jaye simpson once thought she would become. Instead, she unravels the sticky threads of colonialism with poems that exact lyrical acts of self-surgery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these visceral poems, teeth gleam, graze skin, and sink into flesh, becoming bloodied and exposing the animalistic hunger that lies within. Pulsating with yearning and possibility, a body more tolerable is a book that resists typical notions of physicality and sex to dream of a world more divine. It is a call-out into the canon for a new age, one filled with retribution and recompense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'jaye simpson's\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ea body more tolerable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a singular achievement. Her poetic project, at once forward-dawning and ancestral, both revolutionary and decolonizing, is given total expression in this book. These poems moved me immensely; there is so much beauty and feeling power in all of them. No one is writing like jaye simpson.' - Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Minor Chorus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e and\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCoexistence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e'a body more tolerable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a work at once open and lyric, fearless and tender. Expanding grief's territory into moments of relation and desire, simpson also challenges 'home, as a wayward theory' into a poetics of self-mothering, of being beyond becoming. This collection is a fierce and resistant nurturing.' - Liz Howard, author of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eInfinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e and\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLetters in a Bruised Cosmos\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'jaye simpson is one of the most compelling and incisive voices of their generation. In\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ea body more tolerable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, they seize the English language and command it into an instrument that meticulously sings the realities of their present moment. I found solace, fire, and a relentless love for living and loving in these poetic offerings.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ea body more tolerable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a wayward map, and it is gorgeous. I'll carry it close to my heart.' - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, author of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNoopiming: The Cure for White Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46830036353182,"sku":"ADS-9781551529677","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781551529677.jpg?v=1778558658","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781551529677","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}