<div>New poetry from Stevie Edwards, author of Sadness Workshop Quiet Armor, the third full-length collection from poet Stevie Edwards, examines how capitalism and patriarchy impact romantic relationships and, more broadly, intimacy. Edwards considers the ways in which confessional performances of vulnerability can be coercive, whether popular culture encourages men to seek validation through sexual excess and aggression, and how we encourage women to be complicit in figurative and literal violence against other women. Drawing on historical and mythological figures--including Medusa, Persephone, Shakespeare's Lavinia, Saint Agatha, and Saint Christina--Edwards builds a fierce investigation into how rape culture has shaped the literary canon, academia, and the world at large. She brings readers into the quiet and intimate spaces we create despite trauma--or perhaps even because of it. Ultimately, Quiet Armor seeks to reclaim positive intimacy, showing us not only the desperate battles but also the healing embraces. All the while, these poems ask us: What does the end of rape culture look like? How do we get there?</div>

Quiet Armor: Poems

Literature & Fiction

Edwards, Stevie

Poetry

Curbstone Books 2

Poetry. Women's Studies. Stevie Edwards's HUMANLY bravely and vulnerably confronts the complexities of living with mental illness in a voice that is equally feral and crafted. Through a gorgeous and gorge-filled landscape, these poems struggle with dislocation, past sexual trauma, grief, the chronic looming of psychiatric wards, and a constant attempt to redirect patterns of suicidal ideation.

Humanly

Small Doggies Press

Stevie Edwards' debut book of poetry, Good Grief, catalogues her elegantly-wrought misadventures as a freshly-graduated, Michigan transplant stumbling over foal legs through Chicago and kneeling down to confront the wreckage of her skinned knees. Whether stopping to disinter some small ruin of a secondhand-clothes childhood, charting the reaches of her own privilege as a white woman in Chicago, or trying to recollect the reasoning behind last night's bar receipts, Stevie's voice -- a treble, equal parts angst and grace -- rumbles deep down in the belly of her poems, and lingers.Awards:*Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Bronze Prize for Poetry - 2013*Devil's Kitchen Reading Award - 2013

Good Grief

Write Bloody Publishing

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Quiet Armor: Poems

Humanly

Good Grief