![]() ![]() Urgent and vital, feeld composes a new narrative of what it means to live inside a marked body. “gendre is not the tran organe / gendre is yes a hemorage.” “did u kno not a monthe goes bye / a tran i kno doesnt dye.” The world of feeld is our own, but off-kilter, distinctly queer-making visible what was formerly and forcefully hidden: trauma, liberation, strength, and joy. Charles has poetry published with POETRY, Poem-a-Day, PEN, Washington Square Review, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. In Charles’s electrifying transliteration of English-Chaucerian in affect, but revolutionary in effect-what is old is made new again. Jos Charles is the author of feeld, a Pulitzer finalist and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, selected by Fady Joudah (Milkweed Editions) and Safe Space (Ahsahta Press). “i care so much abot the whord i cant reed.” In feeld, Charles stakes her claim on the language available to speak about trans experience, reckoning with the narratives that have come before by reclaiming the language of the past. ![]() Selected by Fady Joudah as a winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, Jos Charles’s revolutionary second collection of poetry, feeld, is a lyrical unraveling of the circuitry of gender and speech, defiantly making space for bodies that have been historically denied their own vocabulary. Jos Charles is the author of feeld, a winner of the National Poetry Series, forthcoming from Milkweed Editions in September. ![]() To see the loss acknowledged in having to ask for the recognition of identity in such striking beauty, to see a. FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE feeld by Jos Charles: A Review by ava hofmann. ![]()
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