{"id":1395,"date":"2023-11-20T22:08:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T22:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/goldlinepress\/?page_id=1395"},"modified":"2023-11-21T22:19:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T22:19:47","slug":"sympathetic-little-monster","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/goldlinepress\/sympathetic-little-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"SYMPATHETIC LITTLE MONSTER"},"content":{"rendered":" \n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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ISBN 978193890174
\nPublication date: May 2016
\n88 pages, 5.3″ x 7″
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Sure, I\u2019ve been opened the way girls are opened.
\n<\/em>Sure, I\u2019ve gone missing in the dark.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sure, I\u2019ve looked at my sister & seen a woman <\/em>
\ncaught in flames. But we have pills for that.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

We have money for pills for that. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Please\u2014<\/em><\/p>\n

what\u2019s the word for being born of sorrow <\/em>
\nthat isn\u2019t yours? For having a family?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

For belonging nowhere? Not even <\/em>
\nyour body. Especially not there.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Cameron Awkward-Rich\u2019s debut is a stunning announcement of a voice that demands we move closer as much as it wishes we\u2019d go away.<\/em>\u00a0The ornate emotional terrain of these poems is charted with the poet\u2019s sometimes spare, sometimes wild, always skilled lyric. We are invited into a story Awkward-Rich suggests we \u201cknow the words\u201d to, but damn if it doesn\u2019t sound better when this poet tells us. As much about stillness as it is about transition,\u00a0Sympathetic Little Monster<\/em>\u00a0is at once analytical, magical, confessional, dismissive, but ultimately, and simply, a collection breaking new ground in Trans, Queer, Black, and American Letters. For many, Awkward-Rich\u2019s poems will burst open the mind, the heart, and even some doors, but when you get in there, just leave him alone.<\/p>\n

\u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Danez Smith<\/strong>
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LINKS\/NEWS<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Excerpt in The Bakery<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Excerpt at Cave Canem<\/a><\/p>\n

Excerpt in\u00a0Connotation Press<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Excerpt in Hobart Pulp<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Excerpt in\u00a0Muzzle Magazine<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Excerpt in\u00a0Nepaltna<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Excerpt in\u00a0The Offing<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Excerpt in Poets & Writers<\/em><\/a>
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Excerpt in\u00a0Verse Daily<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Finalist for the 2017 CLIMP Firecracker Award<\/a>
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Finalist for the 2017 Lambda Literary Award <\/a>
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Interview at Lambda Literary<\/a><\/p>\n

Interview at PEN America <\/a><\/p>\n

Listed on Entropy’s<\/em> Best Poetry Books & Collections of 2016<\/a><\/p>\n

Review in Maudlin House<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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AUTHOR<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cameron Awkward-Rich<\/strong><\/a> is the author of the chapbook Transit <\/em>(Button Poetry, 2015). He is a Cave Canem Fellow, on staff at Muzzle Magazine<\/em>, and currently a doctoral candidate in Modern Thought & Literature at Stanford University.\u00a0Sympathetic Little Mon- ster\u00a0<\/em>was\u00a0named a finalist for the National Poetry Series.<\/p>\n

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Book design by Diana Arterian.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Cover art by Alexandria Smith<\/strong><\/a>, entitled “The Rebirth or HeyGirlHey,” 2013.\u00a0Smith is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies including, most recently, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Virginia A. Myers Fellowship at the University of Iowa, A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship, the Fountainhead Residency and the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship for 2013\/14 and 2014\/15. Smith lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n <\/div>\n \n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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