Katie Farris Libros

Exploring the intricate relationship between language and sexuality, the author challenges conventional narrative forms by employing unclassifiable and unruly prose. The text delves into how genre and gender are intertwined, revealing that our understanding of identity is deeply rooted in the structure of language. By examining the limitations imposed by established conventions, the work highlights how form, genre, and grammar shape social order and influence our perceptions of self and otherness.

Standing in the Forest of Being Alive is a memoir-in-poems that reckons with erotic love even as the narrator is diagnosed and treated for breast cancer at the age of thirty-six during a time of pandemic and political upheaval.