feeld

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDANEW YORKERBEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018AVULTUREBEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018ALIBRARY JOURNALBEST BOOK OF 2018Selected by Fady Joudah as a winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, Jos Charles’s revolutionary second collection of poetry,feeld, is a lyrical unraveling of the circuitry of gender and speech, defiantly making space for bodies that have been historically denied their own vocabulary.“i care so much abot the whord i cant reed.” Infeeld, Charles stakes her claim onthe language available to speak about trans experience, reckoning with the narratives that have come before by reclaiming the language of the past. In Charles’s electrifying transliteration of English—Chaucerian in affect, but revolutionary in effect—what is old is made new again. “gendre is not the tran organe / gendre is yes a hemorage.”“did u kno not a monthe goes bye / a tran i kno doesnt dye.” The world offeeldis our own, but off-kilter, distinctly queer—making visible what was formerly and forcefully hidden: trauma, liberation, strength, and joy.Urgent and vital,feeldcomposes a new narrative of what it means to live inside a marked body.