Holly Melgard’s Poetic Exploration of Vulnerability and Intimacy

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Roof Books, paperback

Publication Date: October 10, 2021

Publisher Marketing: FETAL POSITION is a poetic study of different forms of labor in scenes of their emergence such as the noise of being born and transmissions of inter-generational violence. Here, voices speak who Melgard herself is not – or not yet – but who the poet operates in relation to becoming (potential parent, aspiring full-time employee, deranged cat lady, a hurt person automated to reproduce harm), all of whom work to navigate futures in foreclosure.

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