What does it mean to inhabit a body—and for that body to inhabit our beautiful, damaged, shared world? This is a question Michael M. Weinstein explores through the lenses of gender transition, queerness, disease and disability, photography, and experiences of life in Russia and other former Soviet countries.
The book traces an outward trajectory from familial self-reckoning to ever-broader and more diverse spheres of influence and connection. Ever wary of the temptation, in Adrienne Rich's words, "to make a career of pain," these poems emerge of a belief that the limits of our knowledge don't merely constrain us; instead, they invite us to imagine our place in the world with greater nuance and generosity, and to reckon with the endless particularity of lives other than our own.
