The Body Can Tolerate: Poems - Softcover

Mendoza, Loria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0999889532 ISBN 13: 9780999889534

Publisher: Red Light Lit Press, 2025

Synopsis

The Body Can Tolerate is a hauntingly intimate poetry collection that explores the body as both a witness and a vessel - a place where personal pain and generational trauma echo through every cell. Navigating the liminal space between past and present, memory and dissociation, these poems trace the fractured paths of inheritance, love, loss, and the quiet, aching work of survival. With language as scalpel and salve, the collection reckons with what we carry, what we bury, and what we dare to release. It's a raw meditation on what it means to be haunted while still alive - and the radical act of healing that begins when we finally listen to the ghosts.

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About the Author

Loria Mendoza (she/they) is a queer Chicanx writer, curator, community art producer, and multidisciplinary artist rooted in Austin, Texas. Drawn to Swarthmore College's commitment to social justice and critical inquiry, Loria graduated with an Honors Major in English Literature and an Honors Minor in Political Science. Their passion for storytelling, equity, and the arts then carried them across the country to San Francisco, where they earned both an MA and MFA in English and Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. There, they discovered a love for community building while serving as a co-curator of the graduate program's Poetry Center reading series, The Velvet Revolution, and as Fiction Editor for 14 Hills magazine.Their book Life's Too Short (Fourteen Hills Press) received the Michael Rubin Book Award. Their work has also been published in the great weather for MEDIA anthologies, Beacon Radiant, and Paper Teller Diorama, The Vassar Review, Fourteen Hills, ellipsis... literature and art, Orca, A Literary Journal, Moon City Review, Anatolios Magazine, Love Is the Drug & Other Dark Poems: A Poetry Anthology by Red Light Lit, Acentos Review, Subprimal, Transfer Magazine, and more. Their writing has been performed on stages across the United States.Loria currently lives in Austin with their partner, newborn daughter, two cats named Hall and Oates and a dog named Betty White. They are the curator and host of Red Light Lit Austin and a firm believer in the healing power of art, community, storytelling, and love.

Edition details

• Publisher: Red Light Lit Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0999889532
• ISBN 13: 9780999889534
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 114
• Editor: Cheema Isra