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The Future is Trying to Tell Us Something: New & Selected Poems
The Future is Trying to Tell Us Something New Selected Poems Author:Joy Ladin "Gender transition is often thought of as either fairy-tale-like transformation, a leap from one side of the gender rainbow to the other, or as a series of impersonal medical procedures. But as these poems attest, gender transition, like other modes of becoming, is far messier, more mysterious and idiosyncratic than such simplifications allow, a... more » life-long process combining shame with triumph, ecstasy with disappointment, the mundane humiliation of airport security screenings with the miraculous experience of incarnation and fully embodied love." --From the Author's Note« less