Description

Biblioasis, paperback

Publication Date: April 12, 2022

Publisher Marketing:This is a story, writes Luke Hathaway,of transformation. It is a death. It is a birth. /Birth, of course, is very terrible: what can survive it?His fourth collection, and first sinceYears, Months, and Days, aNew York TimesBest Poetry Book of 2018,The Affirmationsis a work of trans poetics in the most radical sense. Begun in motherhood, in an experience of birth as an experience of affirmation, and continued through Hathaway’s transition,The Affirmationsis a rerelationing with self and other, elder and myth. It’s a book about what happened when Hathaway fell in loveand about what happened when love shot the messenger.