Tendering the Body

Tendering the Body is a collection of offerings-to queer adolescen[ce/ts], [found] family, and bodies that endure. The poems suture together backyard bonfires and secrets at Steak n' Shake, ruminations on body hair and therapy and friendship, and bits and pieces of a grieving body newly acquainted with illness. This book is a meditation on the juxtaposition between the visibility of bodies and the invisibility of their affective experiences made material.