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Les Portes
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Series: Caapp Book Prize
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ISBN10: 1637681208
ISBN13: 9781637681206
Publisher: Autumn House Press
Published: Apr 28 2026
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781637681206
Publisher: Autumn House Press
Published: Apr 28 2026
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
Winner of the 2025 CAAPP Book Prize, selected by Cameron Awkward-Rich, and named a Best Poetry of 2025 and 2026 by Ms. Magazine, Les Portes traces how harm against women and femmes takes root, recurs, and reshapes itself across generations. Unfolding in three movements--Le Début, Le Passé, and Le Présent--all of which rupture conventional domestic abuse narratives, and drawing heavily from zuihitsu, ekphrasis, erasure, and found forms to mirror the fractured experience of living through and after harm, these poems serve as radical meditations on the power to reflect as resistance. A queer woman caught in an abusive marriage begins to reimagine justice not as punishment but as something restorative, collective, and deeply non-carceral.
In her debut book, Nnoka poses the question that propels the collection: Where is the path forward / that ensures no recurrence? Rather than gesture toward resolution, Les Portes dwells inside this question, and what emerges is not consolation but an immense reckoning.
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