VULGAR MECHANICS

Coach House Books, Toronto, 2019

Vulgar Mechanics finds strategies for survival in the two most basic tools available to the speaker: language and the body. The book begins in collapse, witnessing the death of a matriarch. Tracking anger and queer desire from the fracked landscapes of the prairies to the steep verticality of New York, Vulgar celebrates the body as a vehicle of self-determination in a world in which there are no safe words.

Vulgar Mechanics “reverberates with linguistic, erotic, and environmental energy” (Canadian Literature Review) and “defiantly playful…deliciously butch swagger” (Montreal Review of Books) while asserting “a fierce argument for multiplicity and inclusion” (Harvard Review).

Spanish translation by Soledad Marambio in-progress

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