Domestic Bodies

by Jennifer Ruth Jackson

Overview

Domestic Bodies delves into the physicality of mundane and life-altering moments as told by a narrator disabled from birth. This collection deals with themes of cancer, family, death, disability, and resilience. Many of these poems don't end happily but leave the reader with a sense of life continuing on...regardless.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798869339560
Publisher:	Querencia Press, LLC
Publication date:	10/23/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	573 KB

About the Author

Jennifer Ruth Jackson is an award-winning poet and fictionist who resides in Wisconsin. She creates greeting cards, champions other disabled creatives, paints, or plays video games with her husband when not writing. Follow her on Twitter: @jenruthjackson

Editorial Reviews

"Jennifer Ruth Jackson's poems refuse platitudes, trouble assumptions. The poems hold to the light illness, grief, and the mind and body of a disabled speaker. Pain, here, is singular, not universal. Stunning language is also present. A name 'raises hives' on arms, there's a 'door to your mother's voice.' This is a candid and lyrical book-a remarkable contribution to literature of the body."

-Eduardo C. Corral, author of Guillotine

"Jennifer Ruth Jackson's poems are dynamite. They reach back to our disabled elders and forward to a future where we 'steal clouds to write / obscenities to the waning moon.' I love this book and its expansive spirit. Jennifer Ruth Jackson is already on the vanguard as a publisher of many disabled poets. And Domestic Bodies shows her incredible skill as a poet."

-The Cyborg Jillian Weise, author of Common Cyborg

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