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We Want It All

An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

by Andrea Abi-Karam
Kay Gabriel
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Editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel offer We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics as an experiment into how far literature, written from an identitarian standpoint, can go as a fellow traveler with social movements and revolutionary demands. Writing in dialogue with emancipatory political movements, the intergenerational writers assembled here imagine an altogether overturned world in poems that pursue the particular and multiple trans relationships to desire, embodiment, housing, sex, ecology, history, pop culture, and the working day.

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2021 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST

2021 FINALIST FOR THE PUBLISHING TRIANGLE AWARD FOR TRANS AND GENDER-VARIANT LITERATURE

A collection of formally inventive writing by trans poets against capital and empire.


Editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel offer We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics as an experiment into how far literature, written from an identitarian standpoint, can go as a fellow traveler with social movements and revolutionary demands. Writing in dialogue with emancipatory political movements, the intergenerational writers assembled here imagine an altogether overturned world in poems that pursue the particular and multiple trans relationships to desire, embodiment, housing, sex, ecology, history, pop culture, and the working day.

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    November 24, 2020

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      • ISBN: 9781643620947

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      • ISBN: 9781643620947
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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 19, 2020
      “shit, what the hell/ have I built,” writes Zavé Gayatri Martohardjono in a poem featured in this exciting and frank anthology of works by trans writers. Readers may have difficulty parsing the foreword’s distinction that poetry “isn’t revolutionary practice; poetry provides a way to inhabit revolutionary practice,” but they will feel the intensity and timeliness of the entries, such as in Harry Josephine Giles’s series of poems titled “Abolish the Police”: “ ‘Do you imagine,’ I say,/ ‘That I am not disturbed?/ I wish I could imagine an end/ to police untouched by revenge.’ ” Quieter moments of lyric observation are less common but nevertheless striking when they appear, as when Charles Theonia writes, “the pink of us is inside and highly specific.” The essaylike prose pieces mixed in helps characterize the history of trans activism, moving away from the demand that trans writers narrate their embodied experience—as Aaron El Sabrout asks, “What if my body was just a body?” Instead, this anthology imagines poetry as a resource by which the community might stand “against capital and empire,” using language to reimagine collective struggle.

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