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it was never going to be okay (edition 2021)

by Jaye Simpson (Author)

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"it was never going to be okay is a collection of poetry and prose exploring the intimacies of understanding intergenerational trauma, Indigeneity and queerness, while addressing Urban Indigenous Diaspora and breaking down the limitations of sexual understanding as a trans woman. As a way to move from the linear timeline of healing and coming to terms with how trauma does not exist in subsequent happenings, it was never going to be okay tries to breakdown years of silence in their debut collection of poetry: i am five my sisters are saying boy i do not know what the word means but-- i am bruised into knowing it: the blunt b, the hollowness of the o, the blade of y."--… (more)
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Title:it was never going to be okay
Authors:Jaye Simpson (Author)
Info:Nightwood Editions (2021), 96 pages
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I really liked this, but WOW are these poems packed with trauma. Inter-generational colonial/settler/residence school trauma, foster care trauma, gender trauma, sex work trauma. I had to read this book in short sips and then take breaks to read other things. Please check the CWs for this one.

My favorite poem in the collection was the first one, "Sea glass"
how often you find me
smooth & soft
after being torn through
countless grains of trauma;
coping.
you only like me then.
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  greeniezona | Mar 10, 2024 |
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"it was never going to be okay is a collection of poetry and prose exploring the intimacies of understanding intergenerational trauma, Indigeneity and queerness, while addressing Urban Indigenous Diaspora and breaking down the limitations of sexual understanding as a trans woman. As a way to move from the linear timeline of healing and coming to terms with how trauma does not exist in subsequent happenings, it was never going to be okay tries to breakdown years of silence in their debut collection of poetry: i am five my sisters are saying boy i do not know what the word means but-- i am bruised into knowing it: the blunt b, the hollowness of the o, the blade of y."--

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