TRAVIS SHARP
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"Yes, I am a corpse flower articulates the ache and bliss that accompany occupying a (queer) body at odds with the (heteronormative, late-capitalist) world."
​- Annick MacAskill

Sharp's collection here walks that beautiful poetic line between the grandiose and the understated. This collection is equal parts theatrical and painfully realist."
​- Dani Spinosa


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Yes, I am a corpse flower composes a queer lyric meditation on body, identification, and subjectivity, proposing a queer poetics not just referential, limited to language’s meaning. These are not poems about 
queerness, but composed queerly: eccentric, off-centre, oblique, to twist. Poems that failingly and flailingly attempt to define the queer “I,” that skepticize any stable connection between queer self and body, narrate an unnarratable encounter with self-recognition outside of categorizable identity. These poems are composed from a feeling that to state queerness can never be to expound on a single journey, but to gather together a multitude of I’s of which this I, here, writing this paragraph, is only one iteration. I is not this one, but neither is I an other, but a we, perversely licked-linked through language, a sort of tongue: limn me, limn me!


Knife Fork Book, 2021
isbn:
978-1-989355-27-5
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Available from knife | fork | book
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REVIEW BY ANNICK MACASKILL
@ Carousel Magazine


REVIEW BY DANI SPINOSA
@ The Minute Review​

REVIEW BY ROB MCLENNAN
@ rob mclennan's blog

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  • Info
  • Books
    • Yes, I am a corpse flower
    • Sinister Queer Agenda
    • one plus one is two ones
    • Radio: 11.8.16
  • Publications
    • Poetry
    • Essays | Reviews | Interviews
    • Fiction
  • Projects
    • Blood of an Author Box
    • Plantable Chapbooks
    • Essay Press
  • Artist's Books
  • Teaching