Jos Charles's collection feeld makes a bold linguistic move.' -Signature 'feeld is a rare find that will be felt and studied for a long while. Throughout, readers are subject to a careful recalibration of values, as Charles shows that a form is not important because it is static but rather because of the ways it changes, moves, and is perceived.' - Publishers Weekly (starred review) 'Thrilling. The collection undoes easy divisions between interior and exterior or science and nature. Urgent and vital, feeld composes a new and highly inventive lyrical narrative of what it means to live inside a marked body. '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. In Charles's electrifying transliteration of English-Chaucerian in affect, but revolutionary in effect-what is old is made new again. '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. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A FINALIST FOR THE 2018 LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN POETRY A NEW YORKER BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018 A VULTURE BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018 A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2018 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.

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