Transitory

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The author has a strong literary community in Seattle. -Early endorsements from Diane Seuss, CAConrad, and Jill McDonough. - Transitory is a winner of BOA’s Isabella Gardner Award, past winners include titles by Derrick Austin, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Aracelis Girmay. - This book is being released on November 14, to be as close as possible to Transgender Day of Remembrance, which is November 20. The way in which this book took form: “The long overdue social upheaval wrought by the murder of George Floyd in 2020 connected [Bacon] to the ways race circumscribes American life. It took her from poems that spoke to and as the natural world to an examination to racial vulnerabilities, particularly those of transgender and gender-nonconforming people of color. This led to participation in a workshop of poems of social protest in poetic forms, which gave birth to Transitory.