day/break voices It contains sentences of such

It contains sentences of such poetry and power that you will be compelled to set the book down and walk away to recover from the tremors

and indomitable vitality

As new legislation corrodes Métis land rights

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day/break voices It contains sentences of suchday break, Governor General's Literary Award Winner Gwen Benaway's fourth collection of work, explores the everyday poetics of the trans feminine body. Through intimate experiences and conceptualizations of trans life, day break asks what it means to be a trans woman, both within the text and out in the physical world. Shifting between theory and poetry, Benaway questions how gender, sexuality, and love intersect with the violence and transmisogyny of