Life in a Box is a Pretty Life by Dawn Lundy Martin

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Life in a Box is a Pretty Life by Dawn Lundy Martin*Winner of the LAMBDA Literary Award for Best Lesbian Poetry, Finalist for the The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry from Publishing Triangle and The Firecracker Award for Independent Publishing in Poetry Dawn Lundy Martins Life in a Box is a Pretty Life investigates the ways in which language claims absolute knowledge and draws a box around lived experience. Martin writes poems that seek out moments when the box buckles, or breaks, poems that

He set out on a journey that was to last three years

creativity

But Levine’s characters are also significant for their inner lives

in the yawn of the universe we can’t control

forgiveness

A memoir as gripping as it is moving

and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America

where he forged a new path and began his career as a writer

By turns tough and sexy

this “gorgeous” (The New York Times

featuring an afterword by Pulitzer Prize-winner Jericho Brown

treatment and everyday life