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Awakening
by Mary Saracino

A collection of poems about healing from trauma, Awakening takes readers on a journey of loss, resilience, redemption, and, ultimately, reclamation. The poems speak to the need to embrace the healing journey, seek solace in the power of nature, and accept the love and support of others along the way. Ultimately they celebrate the triumph of coming home to oneself in order to be fully present to joy and all that life has to offer.

Motherlines
by Mary Saracino

Motherlines focuses on matrilineal female empowerment, reclaiming one’s ancestral roots, celebrating the healing power of nature, and naming the many ways that women mother the world. It joins the ongoing international collective effort encouraging women to reclaim their voices and take back their power to make the world a better place for all.

Saracino’s poems speak to the human need for sovereignty, equality, connection, compassion, and justice — because another world and a more just future is possible if we envision it and work to create it.

Weight and Wisdom: Reflections on Decades of Working for Body Liberation
edited by Nancy Ellis-Ordway and Tigress Osborn 

Over the last 50 years in the United States, the medical establishment, the beauty industry, and the mainstream media have relentlessly forwarded the belief that fat is unattractive and unhealthy. While many believe that anti-fat ideas went unchallenged until the rise of body positivity, there have always been resistors. In the worlds of eating disorders treatment, Health At Every Size® advocacy, and fat activism, challengers to our cultural narratives have championed another way for decades. In this collection, 34 of those trailblazing rebels against body oppression voice the history of challenging the status quo and working to create a world where all bodies are valued. The result is a multifaceted compilation of stories from researchers, legal experts, clinicians, scholars, and activists who pushed back against weight bias and all its various harmful practices and outcomes.

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Also from Pearlsong Press

Fire Island and Their Sister  by Félix Garmendía

In his third book of poetry, Félix Garmendía celebrates the popular LGBTQ+ vacation destinations of Fire Island and commemorates Titania, a trans woman of Manhattan.

 

 

Poems of Reckoning and Hope by Félix Garmendía

We meet Félix Garmendía (author of Flying on Invisible Wings) again after he has been settled in Washington Heights for years with his husband. There he bears witness to some of the most frightening occurrences of the last fifty years: the disinformation of an out-of-control administration, the explosion of racism, the pandemic, and the storming of the Capitol. And through it all he — and we — find the grace and courage to laugh and find our own oases of hope.

Under the Pomegranate Tree by Leslie Moïse

In ancient Ammon, a sheltered young woman fleeing her rich and powerful father’s plans for her marriage is thrust into a violent world in which her only tools — or weapons — are her knowledge of plants and healing.

 

 

Fat Poets Speak 3: FatDance Flying

The third volume in the groundbreaking Fat Poets Speak series edited by Frannie Zellman. The poets write about their joys, sorrows, anger, and pleasures living in a world that constantly tries to reject and inhibit fat people. Featuring “The Days of Fat Lilith,” Zellman’s series of poems celebrating fat goddesshood.

 

Flying on Invisible Wings by Félix Garmendía

Félix Garmendía‘s poems narrate his life as a gay activist in the face of illness and intolerance, from his early years in conservative Catholic Puerto Rico of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s to his arrival in Manhattan, New York City ion 1988, his experiences as an HIV+ survivor, and current disability due to Inclusion Body Myositis.

 

If We Were Snowflakes by Barbara D’Souza

Barbara D’Souza‘s young adult novel is set in a U.S. in which chocolate is a controlled substance and fatness is taxed. A teenage girl tries to find out who turned her father in for trafficking chocolate while she deals with the challenges of FatSchool.

 

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