Description
Love between women, fighting fascism, the shining highways of the body, cities as intricate teachers, glacial erratics, gun violence, Great Lakes, and protest in the streets appear in these lesbian ecopoems. Political solidarity transcends fracturing personal loss, and the speaker learns that this beauty resides inside of what it means to love and lose as a queer person. “You and I no longer speak, comrade,/but I wish for your keen and queer analysis,” she says as she tries to forge a sense of political, geographic, and intimate community by paying attention to the power of place. City of Honesty is a collection of poetry about the cities we inherit, the cities we are, and the cities we love in a time of fascism.
Roseann St. Aubin –
I found this collection captivating. Freesia McKee lets the writing determine the form, and that may be why her poems feel lyrical and unbounded. Favorites: “This Land Will Always Be Here For You” and “I don’t want to go outside so instead”.