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Whatever Dimness or Brightness

Whatever Dimness or Brightness - Paperback

by Rae Gouirand
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Availability:In StockContributor:Rae GouirandTheme:Topical/LGBTQ+Publish date:9/15/2026Pages:120
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cornerstone PressISBN-13:9781968148621ISBN-10:1968148620UPC:9781968148621Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, LGBTQ+Size:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.28 inchesWeight:0.15Product ID:SCG6ERK39H

"Whatever Dimness or Brightness will leave you 'drunk on your own sudden feeling / of belonging or connectedness / to the greater cosmic order and disorder / of things recognizable and not.' Rae Gouirand writes with furious elegance and cadenced power about longing and the raw intelligence of the body. Each poem is relentlessly alive, so alive I want to crawl into every line and feel the voltage. This book will defibrillate any hurting heart." -MARGOT DOUAIHY

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Cornerstone PressISBN-13:9781968148621ISBN-10:1968148620UPC:9781968148621Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, LGBTQ+Size:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.28 inchesWeight:0.15Product ID:SCG6ERK39H
Gouirand, Rae: - Rae Gouirand is the author of nine works of poetry and nonfiction, including Open Winter (2011), Glass is Glass Water is Water (2018), The History of Art (2019), and the book-length poem The Velvet Book (Cornerstone Press 2024), a 2025 Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her verse and prose have appeared in American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bennington Review, Conjunctions, Foglifter, The Iowa Review, jubilat, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, Spinning Jenny, Under a Warm Green Linden, ZYZZYVA, two volumes of the Best New Poets series, Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology, and many other journals and anthologies nationwide. A leader in community-based education for writers for more than twenty years, she leads the online cross-genre writing group Scribe Lab and serves as a Continuing Lecturer in the Department of English at UC-Davis.
Publisher: Cornerstone Press

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