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By torrin a. greathouse. A virtuoso of poetic form, greathouse is the inventor of the burning haibun, which uses erasure on the prose-poem section to excavate the closing haiku from its text. So, too, she has carved and sculpted a truer identity for herself as a trans woman who writes frankly about disability, sex work, and police brutality, but also about sacred intimacy and solidarity.
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