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day/break
About this book
day/break, poet Gwen Benaway's fourth collection of work, explores the everyday poetics of the trans feminine body. Through intimate experiences and conceptualizations of trans life, day/break asks what it means to be a trans woman, both within the text and out in the physical world. Shifting between theory and poetry, Benaway questions how gender, sexuality, and love intersect with the violence and transmisogyny of the nation state and established literary institutions. In beautiful lyric verse, day/break reveals the often-unseen other worlds of trans life, where body, self, and sex are transformed, becoming more than fixed binary locations.
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Information
1
I am not a girl
but a creature made of smoke
and exhaustion.
I want a poem scrubbed of
dignity,
a body
not brave
but present.
once
after fucking me hard
in a bedroom filled with dust,
you said I was more or less
like a biological woman.
I carry your words inside my body
like the night carries the moon—
each time I wake,
less of me is left.
still, the low sounds
of the city rise up
to wash my hands clean
of longing
my morning cigarette
is a prayer
to mourn
the end of sleep.
look to your own horizon
tell me what you see.
is it my breasts,
wet with your saliva,
returning to press
against memory
or does nothing of me remain?
I asked for this, didn’t I?
to be in love
and not broken,
luminous,
suspended in air.
brief light
of this new day,
bless us
in our forgetting.
2
a tranny is a girl
who sold her dignity
for a chance
to be human.
I am the lesser woman,
transformed by scalpel
and the indifference of men.
their careful pity
marks my body,
the border
between want
and shame.
call me hunger
and place your flesh
on my lips.
I want a gender
that does m...
Table of contents
- Copyright
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- 1
- 2
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- break
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- break
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- About the Author
- Colophon