Summer Jade Leavitt

Mad Girl's Crush Tweet Summer Jade Leavitt

FINALIST FOR THE 2018 CHARLOTTE MEW PRIZE

summer jade leavitt's mad girl's crush tweet is a landscape of individual and collective fragmented testimonies summoning themselves into a ghostly body through accumulation and regeneration. Pay attention to the traces of this kin-both whisper and cannon, dynamite and velvet.
-Ching-In Chen, judge of the Charlotte Mew Contest

Was reading this book on a very uncomfortable bench but was so addicted to the poems the form of the poems the pace of the poems I slowly got down on my knees in the grass refusing to stop reading to leave the bench fuck that bench THESE POEMS ARE MAGIC! summer jade leavitt please keep writing your genius beautiful poetry!
-CAConrad, author of While Standing in Line for Death

Delightfully queer in content and form, mad girl's crush tweet is a book that kept me re-reading for the simultaneous joy-pain-intimate-distance of working for (the speaker's) love - the one who knows that inside the space of the parenthesis is where "all that's real happens" - the digression and the amplification, the explanation and the afterthought - "I am/almost my own singing to the pain like it is a baby" - "(this is how/we)(stay alive)." To be queer is to celebrate living here (and I do) - in the squeeze of memories who have "(become open mouths)" - at the end where we are "(always arriving).
-TC Tolbert, author of Gephyromania