Feeld (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781571315052)

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

Selected by Fady Joudah as a winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, Jos Charles's revolutionary second collection of poetry, feeld, is a lyrical unraveling of the circuitry of gender and speech, defiantly making space for bodies that have been historically denied their own vocabulary.

"i care so much abot the whord i cant reed." In feeld, Charles stakes her claim on the language available to speak about trans experience, reckoning with the narratives that have come before by reclaiming the language of the past. In Charles's electrifying transliteration of English--Chaucerian in affect, but revolutionary in effect--what is old is made new again. "gendre is not the tran organe / gendre is yes a hemorage." "did u kno not a monthe goes bye / a tran i kno doesnt dye." The world of feeld is our own, but off-kilter, distinctly queer--making visible what was formerly and forcefully hidden: trauma, liberation, strength, and joy.

Urgent and vital, feeld composes a new narrative of what it means to live inside a marked body.

Author: Jos Charles
ISBN-10: 1571315055
ISBN-13: 9781571315052
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Language: English
Published: 08/14/2018
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.50d
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/16/2018
Library Journal 09/15/2018 pg. 56