Golden: Reprise — Poetry and Visual Essays

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Haymarket Books, hardcover

Publication Date: April 15, 2025

Publisher Marketing:

A visual & lyrical declaration filled with fever & flight, Reprise, Golden’s second collection of poetry & photography, maps a personal search for safety in a US that offers none.

Golden’s collection illuminates a path through national uprisings, anti-trans violence, family loss, and a global pandemic. These sonically playful poems and assertive, color-saturated portraits reveal a stark vulnerability that invites readers to look deeply at times of great and, possibly, liberatory uncertainty.
At its heart, this collection asks: Where is home? Who is free? What makes a nation?
Golden seeks portals towards self-liberation. In their pursuit, we’re invited to witness and learn from their interior revolution, from which they emerge more free to declare themselves in small and large ways: Whether stating I just want to wear my orange dress to the tennis courts & come back home unbothered or I am home in the arms of the armed.
Building on their debut collection A Dead Name That Learned How to Live and their award-winning self-portraiture series On Learning How to Live, Golden honors the living siege & sorrow, rage & revival, joy & creation of being Black and trans in America.

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