![]() Domenica Martinello, author of All Day I Dream about Sirens I could smell this collection on me for weeks. ![]() This book lays bare the risk and reward of making art about trauma and the audacious possibility of healing in a world that feels like a burning house, moving from lyricism to cultural criticism to formal experimentation and back. I swear certain lines tolled inside me like they've always been there, waiting to be struck. Sachiko Murakami, author of Get Me Out of HereĪmber Dawn's virtuosic, five-octave-range powerhouse My Art is Killing Me and Other Poems rang through me like a bell. These poems deftly slip among registers, languages, experiences, and traditions to tell a whole-hearted, full-bodied, and totally essential truth. When new traumas arise, Amber Dawn concocts new spells for healing in this book woven of magic, testament and prayer. ![]() 'We fail to see / nearby violence while we naively imagine distant violence,' Amber Dawn laments, and you don't need to look further for nearby violence than the polite world of institutional CanLit. ![]() As you (literally you) read this book, you are continually confronted with the question of who consumes sex worker experiences, to what end, and at what cost comes that consumption. In her brilliant new collection, Amber Dawn documents, probes, and analyzes her own 'happily ever after' success story of a sex worker turned award-winning writer. ![]()
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