Brilliant Odyssey Dont Yearn
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Finn Menzies is a transmasculine writer and preschool teacher. He lives and works in Seattle,Washington. He holds his MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College.Finn Menzies debut collection “brilliant odyssey don’t yearn” is the unspooling of a body noticing its multiplicity, a book like a scarf a magician might pull from their sleeve, astonishing at each new length drawn. Investigating the tangle of guilt and affirmation within the press of identity, Menzies’ poem glide over and beneath the skin. A uncompromising offering, this book is a directive, an invitation committed to tenderly dismantling a social structure organ by organ, a gentleness felt even as Menzies undoubtedly pierces the status quo. Simultaneously crushing and consoling, “brilliant odyssey don’t yearn” is a quiet and unfettered gift, poetry arising from need: humane, graceful, redemptive. -Sophie Klahr, author of Meet Me Here At Dawn “Finn Menzies begins the final poem of the Brilliant Odyssey Don’t Yearn by announcing, “there is no passive way to end the world of me,” and we trust him because we see him try. Throughout the book, Menzies charts the process of transformation (physical, psychological, spiritual) with a vulnerability that is dexterous and rare. He writes, “every night, I get on my knees and pray our human / bodies will become words.” Sometimes, our prayers get answered. Sometimes, a poet gets it all exactly right.”-Kaveh Akbar, author of Calling a Wolf a WolfThis debut volume by Finn Menzies gifts us with a poet of exquisite phrasing. The poems in Brilliant Odyssey Don’t Yearn build and build (check out the accruing acronym), and are imagistically accretive in a pattern at once astute, intimate, and vulnerable––“when I get anxious I only feed my heart snow” and “my spirit is real and my body is illusory”–– Candid, surprising,
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