Here, she proves that a new line of inquiry demands new forms of discourse, ultimately creating-through her deft experimentation with received forms-a vehicle that fully does justice to the complexity of her thinking. This is an astonishing debut.” Frequently engaging questions of language, agency, and the body, Womer’s formal innovations call into question normative assumptions about how narrative should or ought to behave, giving us instead a lyricism that ‘thrives in areas of disruption.’ By moving between moments of wholeness and provocative fragmentation, Womer begins work toward an alternative lexicon, one more hospitable to women’s voices. “Brenna Womer’s honeypot gives us familiar literary forms-including pristine prose paragraphs, lyric strophes, and short fictions-only to dismantle them for feminist ends. TaraShea Nesbit, author of Beheld and The Wives of Los Alamos “From gleaning to toothaches, across anxieties and economic precarity, Womer writes with gorgeous attention to language and to sound, creating a book quivering with insights. I loved this book.” Kristine Langley Mahler, author of Curing Season Womer’s work will leave you similarly marked.” The weight of expectations press into the grit of love, leaving behind indelible scratches. “Budgeting for Sensodyne while finding “no place, yet, to sell a memory,” the narrator in Brenna Womer’s hybrid collection, cost of living, knows both the heavy expense of connection and the ache of paying for one’s place in the world. K-Ming Chang, author of Bestiary and Past Lives, Future Bodies Deeply intimate and carefully observed, Womer’s writing reveals the expansive possibilities of both poetry and prose.” “Brenna Womer’s cost of living is meditative, subtle, and moving it bursts with surprising and dynamic language that circles familial histories, complex intimacies, class, memory, and origin. Cover Art: Time Moves Slow… by Audrey Bertoia cost of living
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