Humanly by Stevie Edwards
ABOUT THE BOOK
Stevie Edwards’s Humanly bravely and vulnerably confronts the complexities of living with mental illness in a voice that is equally feral and crafted. Through a gorgeous and gorge-filled landscape, these poems struggle with dislocation, past sexual trauma, grief, the chronic looming of psychiatric wards, and a constant attempt to redirect patterns of suicidal ideation.
1st Printing: Small Doggies Press 2015.
ISBN: 978-0-9848744-8-4
Small Doggies Press Trade Paperback Edition, March 2015
Edited by: Carrie Seitzinger
Cover Art by: Natasha Law
Cover Design by: Olivia Croom
Interior Layout by: Olivia Croom
Type set in Palatino & Optima
148 pages.
Distribution: Small Press Distribution.
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PRAISE FOR HUMANLY
“If I had never before heard anyone say, “Art Saves Lives,” I swear on the bullseye of my own wrist, I would have run through the streets screaming it the moment I finished this book. I want everyone who has never believed in the possibility of being given back Time, to read these poems. Not a moment of grief denied, and still, each turn of the page, a vaulted ceiling in my heavy heart. What a generous and intensely vulnerable offering to our survival this book is.”
—Andrea Gibson
“With an unpredictability that alternately jolts and mesmerizes, Stevie Edwards has crafted an intricate exploration of life as we’d rather not know it. There is much in these stanzas to jolt and unsettle—stark crafting and a relentless respect for the possibilities of word create a tension only felt in the presence of revelation.”
—Patricia Smith
“In Humanly, Stevie Edwards wakes us into our own bodies with her fierce honesty: The first time I tried to slip my outsides/I failed. This is a courageous book of startling images and original voice that surges beyond the difficult questions: If I string the night between two fence posts, /one side heaven and one side hell… Or: I was/watching myself in the hotel mirror to make sure/my body was still happening… Edwards blows the doors off the outer body, delivering us to the beating heart and the inner doors of human mercy. Humanly burns need and desire into the sound of survival: a prayer/in praise of the groaning in the backroom:/Let each body be loved until its end.”
—Jan Beatty
POEMS FROM HUMANLY
Five Poems @ Gesture Literary Journal
Poetry Suite @ NAILED Magazine, featuring three poems from Humanly.
Three Poems @ Drunk in a Midnight Choir
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