Description

Gold Line Press, paperback

Publication Date: July 12, 2022

Publisher Marketing: In AS I SAID: A DISSENT, Abby Minor rejects the vacated terms of the conventional “abortion debate.” Instead, these polyvocal poems explore the “exquisite business” of inheritance, embodiment, justice, and citizenship. Anchored by a documentary study of the infamous nineteenth-century abortion provider Madame Restell, Minor’s dissent deftly interweaves historical documents and oral interviews with frank details of contemporary Appalachian life. AS I SAID eludes the instrumentalization of reproductive storytelling in favor of becoming “aperture / at once seeing / and being ajar.”