How I Bend Into More - Softcover

Gerbeza, Tea

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1990293875 ISBN 13: 9781990293870

Publisher: Anstruther Books, 2025

Synopsis

Based on Tea Gerbeza's experience with scoliosis, How I Bend Into More re-articulates selfhood in the face of ableism and trauma. Meditating on pain, consent, and disability, this long poem builds a body both visually and linguistically, creating a multimodal space that forges Gerbeza's grammar of embodiment as an act of reclamation. Paper-quilled shapes represent the poet's body on the page; these shapes weave between lines of verse and with them the reclaimed disabled body is made. How I Bend Into More is a distinctive poetic debut that challenges ableist perceptions of normalcy, and centers ?the double architecture / of ( metamorphosis (.?

About this title

About the Author

Tea Gerbeza is a queer, disabled writer and multimedia artist. She has an MFA in Writing from the University of Saskatchewan and an MA in English & Creative Writing from the University of Regina. Tea won the Ex-Puritan's 2022 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence for poetry. Her work has been published internationally in various magazines and journals. How I Bend Into More is her first book. Find out more at teagerbeza.com

From the Back Cover

Based on Tea Gerbeza's experience with scoliosis, How I Bend Into More re-articulates selfhood in the face of ableism and trauma. Meditating on pain, consent, and disability, this long poem builds a body both visually and linguistically, creating a multimodal space that forges Gerbeza's grammar of embodiment as an act of reclamation. Paper-quilled shapes represent the poet's body on the page; these shapes weave between lines of verse and with them the reclaimed disabled body is made. How I Bend Into More is a distinctive poetic debut that challenges ableist perceptions of normalcy, and centres "the double architecture / of ( metamorphosis (."

Edition details

• Publisher: Anstruther Books
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1990293875
• ISBN 13: 9781990293870
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80