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These women struggle with the "man inside" who urges them to see themselves as men do

the complexity of family secrets and the hope found in a world of honed truths

in Quill & Quire

winner of the 2021 New Criterion Poetry Prize

X Product Form:Paperback / softback zigzags to and fro likeDescription One of the first lines of X, Shane Rhodes' sixth book of poetry, is a warning: "this book of verse demands more of verse, this book demands perversity." He goes on to write: This book is about where I live, a place still settling, still making the landlaw by law, arrest by arrest, jail by jailits own snow blown Heed this warning. In X, Rhodes takes poetry from the comfortable land of the expected to places it has seldom been. Writing