Description
Gut-wrenching winner of the 2024 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest, Mickie Kennedy’s Glandscapes grapples with survival and the self. It bares its most vulnerable parts, speaking to family, inheritance, and queer experience—all colored by the lens of illness.
When faced with our own mortality, Glandscapes asks what pieces of ourselves are we willing to lose? Who are we without them? Kennedy’s wry humor blends with stark intimacy, bringing us into a narrative rich with love and loss.
Glandscapes demands an unflinching gaze as it scalpels through the things we fear the most.
Praise for Mickie Kennedy
“Glandscapes is an incredibly moving collection, rich with the kind of up-close intimacy that covers such wide ground — parentage, beloveds, the self, survival and not. It builds a rich interior world that is clear and distinct to the speaker, but not isolating to you, the reader, who might want to walk through that world for a while. This book is a triumph, is massively generous, and also just plainly a pleasure to read.”
— Hanif Abdurraqib, author of The Crown Ain’t Worth Much