The Body`s Alphabet, Tweedy Ann

Ann Tweedys first book is a brave and honest examination of liminality. In delicate lyrics she confesses to trespass, asking readers to question the boundaries between acts and identity, sexuality and family. The Bodys Alphabet documents the poets courage, living openly as a bisexual feminist. Although childhood logic taught her that home is the structure / you build when nowhere else will have you, these beautiful poems knit and nest safe haven for a life spent gathering freedom.
-Carol Guess, author of Doll Studies: Forensics

What made me sit down and read The Bodys Alphabet, cover to cover, in a single evening? Perhaps it is the way that I know, in Ann Tweedys poems, I will find the unvarnished truth, and a voice with the drowsed freedom to talk about anything. And I know I will find that truth compassionately rendered, details delicately arranged like the flowers of the dutiful and stubborn forsythia of which she writes. This is a book about finding homes for ourselves-homes for our adult selves, even as complex memories of our childhood homes still live inside us; homes for our bodies; homes in the natural world. Tweedys vision is both hopeful and wise.
-Katrina Vandenberg, author of Atlas and The Alphabet Not Unlike the World