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Bones Awaiting the Blaze juggles the themes of loss, trauma, post-traumatic stress, and the severing and creation of family bonds. This deeply personal text grapples with the journey to understand and recover from fraught relationships with family members and oneself.

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A mother stitches a rag doll again and again while the house burns down, flames licking all the poems in its wake. A devastating collection of a girlhood sewn from fire. Haunting. Reverberating. Tightly-knit and lyrical. Tiffany Elliott's Bones Awaiting The Blaze is a stunner. -Jennifer Givhan This is a fresh, adventurous, and serious collection of poems. The music is mesmerizing and memorable, and each poem takes the reader on a journey to revelation and surprise. -Laura Kasischke Tiffany Elliott's lexical field knows no boundaries, as beauty and tenderness jostle against the body's profane ruptures, its matryoshka dolls of trauma, each year nested painfully inside the one before-until the poet's urgency is to unstitch, undo, to un-grow the body all the way back and begin again. Bones Awaiting The Blaze brilliantly traces the poet's descent into the body's ruins-of the woman who must search hell to rescue herself. This is dangerous and vital work! Can poetry save us? If you read this book, you won't need to ask. -Chad Sweeney

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Tiffany Elliott is an asexual, neuroatypical, and disabled woman and mental health professional who received her MFA from NMSU, where she received the Mercedes De Los Jacob's Thesis Prize. Her works have appeared in Typehouse and Spectrum and explore the mythologies we experience, abuse, trauma, and how people remake themselves.

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