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” and is this collection not a new species of poetry

a guide to finding ourselves in what we lose

The journey of reading these words is also a universal one

//The mandatory mystery ingredients is shit we cooked with before

If My Body Could Speak 978-1-63834-129-1 ” and is this collectionBlythe Baird, 2019. Blythe Baird's If My Body Could Speak is a celebration of girlhood and all of its struggles and triumphs. In poems that dig deep into sexuality, acceptance of the body, survival of trauma, and learning to love yourself in spite of everything telling you not to, Baird's voice is a rich addition to her generation. Searing, soaring, and heartbreaking, If My Body Could Speak balances the softness of femininity with the sharpness that