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Stigmata

Stigmata

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General GLBTQIA FictionGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 1772016918
ISBN13: 9781772016918
Publisher: Talonbooks
Published: Sep 16 2025
Pages: 83
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

The poems in Stigmata are ruinous encounters between traumatic and historical memory. They transfigure the cult of the wound into a mystic frenzy of sex, grief, and noise. Drawing inspiration from a broad archive of texts and practices - apophatic theology, body horror, gardening, queer theory, classic films, poststructuralism, and bad sex - Stigmata forms a counterhistory of the wound, an experiment in fractured memoir and misplaced anatomy that weaponizes the confessional mode, wrenching it from self-narration to approach a violence that breaks language and bodies apart. Stigmata fuses the high to the low - the sacred of theory and theology to the profane of leaking and lust. The result is a treacherous adventure through the cross-currents of sexual deviancy and religion, helped along by a bitter sense of humour, to the limits of faith and body.

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