night myths
  • before the body
  • ebook Poems

    By Abi Pollokoff

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    "A stunning debut, navigating womanhood, mythology, the body, and the surreal knowledge that dwells within."—Jane Wong, author of Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, How to Not Be Afraid of Everything (longlisted for the 2022 Pen/Voelcker Award in Poetry), and Overpour

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  • • before the body is an ecofeminist interrogation of identity, vulnerability, and relationship that dismantles the boundaries between the body and the natural world to reclaim expressions of power and womanhood.

    What are the stories we tell our bodies about our bodies? What are the myths we tell ourselves about ourselves? night myths

  • • before the body illuminated the dichotomies contemporary women grapple with every day: identity and expectation, self-preservation and doubt, freedom and entrapment, wildness and cultivation. By dissolving the boundaries between the body and the natural world, Abi Pollokoff's evocative debut deconstructs the essence of womanhood, carrying the reader into a communing at once vulnerable and insistent. night myths
  • • before the body is a resounding interrogation of being human in a posthuman world.

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  • before the body