How I Bend Into More - Paperback

by Tea Gerbeza (Author)

Back Jacket

Based on Tea Gerbeza's experience with scoliosis, How I Bend Into More re-articulates selfhood in the face of ableism and trauma. Meditating on pain, consent, and disability, this long poem builds a body both visually and linguistically, creating a multimodal space that forges Gerbeza's grammar of embodiment as an act of reclamation. Paper-quilled shapes represent the poet's body on the page; these shapes weave between lines of verse and with them the reclaimed disabled body is made. How I Bend Into More is a distinctive poetic debut that challenges ableist perceptions of normalcy, and centres "the double architecture / of ( metamorphosis (."

Author Biography

Tea Gerbeza is a queer, disabled writer and multimedia artist. She has an MFA in Writing from the University of Saskatchewan and an MA in English & Creative Writing from the University of Regina. Tea won the Ex-Puritan 's 2022 Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence for poetry. Her work has been published internationally in various magazines and journals. How I Bend Into More is her first book. Find out more at teagerbeza.com