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TENDERING THE BODY

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Release Date: February 28, 2025

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"Brittany Brewer is a poet of the body and the home, spaces not dissimilar, spaces that have been lost and revisited through the speaker’s perpetual yearn for grounding. I’m in awe of the heart, syntax, story, and longing in “Tendering the Body,” the poems giving a rendition of what it means to return home to the Midwest through the lenses of girlhood, friendship, illness, queerness. Listen to Brewer who, even in descendant gestures, holds onto hope: “So many times, I wish I could render my body anew, sift her down to her basest grains, knead her, and let her rise again.” And rise she does in this stunning debut."

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–Janine Certo, Author of O Body of Bliss, winner of the 2023 the Longleaf Press Book Contest in Poetry and Elixir, winner of the 2020 New American Poetry Prize and 2020 Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize, among others.

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"Brittany Brewer’s Tendering the Body provides a teacher’s chronicle of adolescence and personal transformation.  In poems that are as smart as they are tender, Brewer sheds light on the complicated experience of adolescence in the smalltown Midwest and young adult emergence into queer experience.  She invites the reader to witness a journey of a self in process–in a Stake n’ Shake, in a Toyota Camry, in the classroom, the yoga studio, and the doctor’s office.  The book asks us to consider with the author various poetic responses to the critical question “what facts, feelings, needs, or goals, are in your head today” with generosity and care."

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–Robin Silbergelid, author of the poetry collection The Baby Book (CavanKerry Press, 2015) and the memoir Texas Girl (Demeter Press, 2014), as well as the chapbooks In the Cubiculum Nocturnum (Dancing Girl Press, 2019) and Frida Kahlo, My Sister (Finishing Line, 2014), among others.

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