Missed Connections with Tall Girls
Finalist for the Writers' Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize for 2SLGBTQ+ Emerging Writers • As heard on CBC • An Autostraddle Most Anticipated Queer Book for April
train hopping
pill popping
fur wearing
sink pissing
tranny
punk
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"Gwen is my favourite kind of poet, the kind with clear eyes that truly see other humans." —katherena vermette, author of The Break and Procession
"Will make you cackle so heinously your roommate asks what you are choking on." —South Broadway Press
Tweaking working-class colloquialisms into new forms of elegy and song, Gwen Aube’s hilarious and uncompromising poems chronicle a precarious, debaucherous carnival of trailer-trash divas and Discord autistics, living and delighting in survival at the edges of technocapital.
Like a digital-age Wanda Coleman, like a transsexual Kevin Killian, like Elizabeth Smart infused with Sybil Lamb, Missed Connections with Tall Girls establishes Aube as a brash and unstoppable singular voice for a monstrous new world.
