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by S. Brook Corfman (Author)
Often, the fact of being an individual can seem wildly at odds with the experience of containing multitudes. In Luxury, Blue Lace, S. Brook Corfman takes the reader through this complicated experience of selfhood and its multitudes, exploring the many overlapping identities a single person can contain. Corfman's poems conjure a host of identities and selves both living and dead, gesturing towards the complex way memory and loss can inhabit us. Formed by experience, history, and the strictures of gender, the poems dwell on the challenges of fully knowing and understanding the diverse parts of a subject. While they seek out a full form for the individual, they also relish the complex multiplicity of the identities that arise through self-exploration and self-knowledge. Luxury, Blue Lace was the winner of the Autumn House Rising Writer Prize in 2018.
Author Biography
S. Brook Corfman is the author of My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites, one of The New York Times' Best Poetry Books of 2020, a finalist for the Publishing Triangle's Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans & Gender-Variant Literature, and the winner of the Fordham University Press POL poetry prize judged by Cathy Park Hong. She is also the author of the collection Luxury, Blue Lace, chosen by Richard Siken for the 2018 Autumn House Rising Writer Prize. In 2024 she received the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America. Born and raised in Chicago, she now lives in Pittsburgh.
