Gephyromania

A reprint of trans poet, activist, and teacher TC Tolbert’s beloved debut collection of poetry.

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Weight .4 lbs
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eBook, Paperback

In Gephyromania (literally, an addiction to or an obsession with bridges), Tolbert’s choice isn’t between female and male, lover and self, or loss and relief, but rather to live in the places where those binaries meet. Is a bridge simply an attempt to connect one body back to itself? Sensing the parallels between a lover who leaves and his own female body as it chooses to recede, the poems in Gephyromania explore the spaces between, among, across, and even within bodies.

Praise

Gephyromania teaches us that to unmake a body, language, and thereby a world is as meaningful (perhaps more so) than building–and that unmaking is, oxymoronically, a form of creation. This collection presses hard and urgently against the throat of mainstream western notions of what it means to inhabit a gendered body. A truly necessary book!

-Dawn Lundy Martin
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Details
Ahsahta Press (2014)
ISBN: 9781643621203
Paperback, 104 pages, 6 x 8 in
Publication Date: May 10, 2022
Reviews

Tolbert’s debut collection, named after an obsession with bridges, bends both lyric and theory-driven poetics to their breaking point as it explores the limits of and territories between desire, will, loss and gain, and the experience of moving from female to male embodiment.

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TC Tolbert often identifies as a trans and genderqueer feminist, collaborator, mover, and poet but really s/he’s just a human in love with humans doing human things. The …

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