Winner of the 2023 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award, an unsettling poetic fairy tale based in a real-world marriage. Straddling genres--prose poetry, micro memoir, fairy tale, autofiction--Where Will We Live If the House Burns Down is first and foremost the story of a marriage. Borrowing elements from surrealist writer and artists, it explores the affects of chronic illness, disability, and a spouse's gender transition. All of these issues swirl through the central marital relationship and the daily lives of its two lead characters, Sergeant and Grim--even as the book's narrator, unreliable and unobjective, increasingly takes center stage. Reminiscent as much of contemporary fiction by writers like Sabrina Orah Mark and Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum as of poets or memoirists, this book is as engrossing as it is experimental, traversing complicating difficult domestic and emotional terrain by way of Allison Blevins' vivid imagination.

Where Will We Live If the House Burns Down?: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Blevins, Allison

Poetry

Persea

Handbook for the Newly Disabled, A Lyric Memoir

BlazeVOX Books

A beautiful set of 3 distinct chapbooks of poems by 3 different poets in one single bound volume. This is part of the Delphi series. Volume 6 contains work by Allison Blevins ("Susurration"), Saul Hillel Benjamin ("Laud"), and Cameron Morse ("Coming Home with Cancer").

The Delphi Series Volume VI: Susurration, Laud, and Coming Home with Cancer (Delphi Chapbook Series)

Benjamin, Saul Hillel

Morse, Cameron

Literary

Blue Lyra Press

Cataloguing Pain by Allison Blevins explores motherhood, sexuality, and queerness as it juxtaposes the author's diagnosis of MS with her partner's gender transition. As one body moves toward unfamiliarity, a state of chronic pain, a sense of being caged, the other is escaping pain, emerging into its true self, becoming free. Cataloguing Pain chronicles both trauma and hope through marriage, illness, and motherhood as the author learns how to live in a disabled body.

Cataloguing Pain

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

YesYes Books

Poetry. "Allison Blevins' ekphrastic poems pay homage to Joan Mitchell, the mid-century American Abstract Expressionist painter. Individually the poems in LETTERS TO JOAN evoke a rich and complex world; together they sing celebrations and dirges of womanhood. LETTERS TO JOAN is a stunning chapbook."--Julie R. Enszer

Letters to Joan

Lithic Pr

"If I can give myself anything, let it be a way into anger," a reasonable creed for navigating a life continually demanding passivity toward the violence and loss it inflicts. Allison writes the plights of mothers, daughters, lovers and spouses in a voice that endures scars and calluses but refuses to accept them as necessary. "Some unbecomes happen slowly." This book provides precise detail of ascendance above survival.

Slowly/Suddenly

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Vegetarian Alcoholic Press

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