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?Chimeras breaks language apart at its softest joints?gnawed, flensed and flayed into bare life?and rebuilds it as encrypted fury.? - Corinne Gilroy, editor and critic Chimeras is a collection of poems that are sky bound and on all fours pulling language through the temporal long haul of what it takes to arrive just on the brink of the not yet and the possible. Here's matriarchal transformation in flux. And here's how the past, present, and future merge to become like a body of water for private and public revelries and protests to do everything they can to not just stay afloat but to kick with the dignity it takes to swim. What is revelatory is how this poet's language moves: up to its ears in dirt then gracing a green to the thinking it's doing. And how its pace and the smoke it leaves in its wake suits exactly right now. - Sue Goyette, Halifax Poet Laureate 2020-2024 ?Chimeras is a brilliantly allusive, feminist critique of the mythical and epistemological monsters of Western literary and philosophical tradition. Each of the book's four poems begins pregnant with an illusion whose still/birth calls attention to the alchemy between language and biology. In this poetic world, knowledge is not in the movement from the darkness of the cave to the light but in the ?etchings/like a stained glass? made on the ice by the ?metal legs dragging/across the slick surface? when a mechanized myth slips and gets back up. ?Art, ? these poems tell us, ?emerges and vanishes in an instant, ? and every page of this book is an artful emergence.? - Alison Turner, Curator of the South Dakota Oral History Center and author of Defensible Spaces

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Tegan Zimmerman (PhD) holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She is Chair of the Alexa McDonough Institute at Mount Saint Vincent University (2024-2026) and the Editor of Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice. She specializes in contemporary gender theory and women's writing that centralizes the maternal and mother-daughter relations. She recently completed a Writers? Federation of Nova Scotia Residency at Jampolis Cottage N.S. Her work has appeared in academic journals such as Feminist Theory, MELUS, and Women's Studies, and she is the author of Matria Redux: Caribbean Women Novelize the Past and Chronotropics: Caribbean Women Writing Spacetime, a co-edited collection with Odile Ferly. She has two beloved Pugs named Kosmo and Canto.

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