{"product_id":"splendor-trans-poets-9781966192022","title":"Splendor: Trans Poets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroducing readers to five trans and nonbinary poets \u003ci\u003eSplendor\u003c\/i\u003e is an ode to queer bodies, with previously unpublished translations from Argentina, Denmark, Korea, Norway, and Quebec.\u003c\/b\u003e From the irreverent and irresponsible to the quiet and meditative these poems decentralize our ideas of trans experience and poetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSplendor\u003c\/i\u003e presents a sliver of the wide possibilities of what trans literature can offer. This is trans literature that transcends borders and binaries in order to engaging with a messy world. As Camila Sosa Villada writes, \"Let us keep loving one another in this swamp of contradictions.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rickey Laurentiis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Two Lines Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.80h x 5.80w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781966192022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaurentiis, Rickey:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Rickey Laurentiis was raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, to care. Her debut book, Boy with Thorn, won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, the Levis Reading Prize, and the Whiting Award. Her much anticipated second collection, Death of the First Idea, was published in 2025 by Knopf and longlisted for the National Book Award; it was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a nominee for a NAACP Image Award.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBérubé, Pascale:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003ePascale Bérubé\u003c\/b\u003e is perhaps an anomaly: a trans poet who is seemingly uninterested in stable gender assignments. She is more interested in transness itself, that is, what lies between and never quite resolves itself into an identity, a floating inside an indeterminate Being. To quote the final words of the first poem in her collection, \u003ci\u003eTrop de Pascale\u003c\/i\u003e: \"je ne suis pas moi\" (\u003ci\u003eI am not me\u003c\/i\u003e). Perhaps this could be described as a more generalized dysphoria, but, in the hands of Bérubé, it is above all a poetics, a reappropriation of Rimbaud's \"Je est un autre.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHolmegaard, Luka:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eLuka Holmegaard\u003c\/b\u003e (he\/they; b. 1990) is an award-winning Danish author of fiction, essays, and poetry. He made his debut with the novel \u003ci\u003eEmma Emma\u003c\/i\u003e in 2015, followed by \u003ci\u003eGraceland\u003c\/i\u003e in 2017. \u003ci\u003eLOOK\u003c\/i\u003e (2020) is a genre-defying work about the role of clothing in literature, in creating and reshaping gender, in political protests, in power relations, in sex and love, and in the precarious labor market. \u003ci\u003eLOOK\u003c\/i\u003e was critically acclaimed in both Denmark and Germany and nominated for the Politikens Literature Prize. \u003ci\u003eThe Ocean in Your Mouth\u003c\/i\u003e is his fourth book.\u003cbr\u003eEt al...\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Rickey Laurentiis \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48912968417437,"sku":"9781966192022","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_f9cc803d-233d-42b0-8450-d6a7e18e1194.jpg?v=1789548636","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/splendor-trans-poets-9781966192022","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}