Things I Didn't Do with This Body

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Inaugural winner of the Benjamin T. Sankey Award (2014) and a Stegner Fellow (2021)Poetry addresses timely insight into the Black experience in America and the history of Black violence and oppression in the United StatesPoetry directly addresses conversations around women's bodily autonomy and the contemporary war on women's bodies in a time of the overturn of Roe v. WadeFamiliar sonnet forms sit alongside experimental stream-of-consciousness prose in a hybrid contribution to contemporary poetryPotential audiences: (Black) women interested in body, the fat erotic, sexuality, and/or generational shame, those who have experienced chronic illness and medication, rehabilitation, and therapy, fans of poetry that engages social activism, BIPOC voices, and the LGBTQ+ communityAcquisition Story: Jorie Graham first recommended Amanda Gunn to Michael Wieger, who then invited Amanda to submit a manuscript