Renunciations: Poems Lesbian Studies Perched from the chair set

Perched from the chair set by the living room window

to show up in their own lives when and where they want to

oppressive systems that heavily contribute to the climate crisis

these pages venture through the process of finding inner peace

and a love story informed by the treacherous fault lines of American culture

Renunciations: Poems Lesbian Studies Perched from the chair setAn extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award winning author of Bestiary The Renunciations is a book of resilience, survival, and the journey to radically shift one's sense of self in the face of trauma. Moving between a childhood marked by love and abuse and the breaking marriage of that adult child, Donika Kelly charts memory and the body as landscapes to be traversed and tended. These poems construct life rafts and