antibody

Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry, Finalist
J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award, Finalist

Praise for Rebecca Salazar and antibody

“Rebecca Salazar’s antibody is a future classic of feminist verse. This book is so many things at once and powerfully so: ode, elegy, lamentation, manifesto, rallying call, theoretical treatise. I envision this book not so much arriving to the scene of Canadian poetry as remaking it completely.” –Billy-Ray Belcourt, author of Coexistence

“Rebecca Salazar’s antibody is an impressive collection of dualities and contradictions. The holy exists within the unholy, the spiritual within the body, pleasure within pain, dark within light, healing within trauma. In this doubleness, we find complexity that does not oversimplify women’s experiences of gendered violence, rape, and abuse, and the threats that keep them silent. Salazar’s poems allow the speaker and their body to be more than just their trauma, more than what they can give to others: the power of these poems is that they luxuriate in their desires, in the lusciously gory, in magical darkness, in sensual pleasure. Cutting through silence with electric humour, pulsing rhythm, and intoxicating language, Salazar’s poetry becomes both refusal and reclamation, exclaiming ‘let none choose for me when i choose to breathe.'” –Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, author of The Good Arabs