Social Poesis: The Poetry of Rachel Zolf Islam told me it would be

told me it would be okay

they discover there's more to making a baby than meets the eye

unveils a solar system of swordplay

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Social Poesis: The Poetry of Rachel Zolf Islam told me it would beSocial Poesis introduces readers to the work of one of Canada's most exciting and challenging poets. Through selections from across Zolf's poetic oeuvre, this book foregrounds the philosophical, ethical, and political questions that inform Zolf's poetry. Selections range from early poems in which Zolf explores transhistorical trauma and queer subjectivity to more recent writings in which Zolf examines militarism, settler colonialism, and other forms