Intimacies, Received

Intimacies, Received signals agency, as trauma isheld to the light and finally named.In this astonishing second collection by Taneum Bambrick, violence hides in the glint of the carving knife--every intimacy a shadow, everymemory a maze to navigate. Set primarily in rural Southern Spain, Intimacies, Received moves through streets and fields, households and years, followinga survivor of sexual assault as she painstakingly reassembles a narrative ofself. A brilliant storyteller, Bambrick builds through palimpsest--layeringvivid imagery to recall embodiment and dissociation, illness and isolation, queer female sexuality amidst acts of misogyny--utilizing varied forms includingekphrasis, persona, and a lyric essay. Ultimately, Intimacies, Receivedsignals agency, as trauma is held to the light and finally named. Author: Taneum BambrickPublisher: Copper Canyon PressPublished: 09/27/2022Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40dISBN: 9781556596315Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 08/15/2022About the AuthorTaneum Bambrick is the author of Intimacies, Received(Copper Canyon Press, 2022) and Vantage, which was selected by Sharon Olds forthe APR / Honickman First Book Award (American Poetry Review, 2019). Herchapbook, Reservoir, was selected by Ocean Vuong for the 2017 Yemassee ChapbookPrize. She is the winner of an Academy of American Poets University Prize, anEnvironmental Writing Fellowship from the Vermont Studio Arts Center, and the2018 BOOTH Nonfiction Contest. She was a 2020 Stegner Fellow at StanfordUniversity, and has received scholarships from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. She is the Reviews Editor at PleiadesMagazine and a Dornsife Fellow in Creative Writing and Literature in the PhDprogram at USC.