Toxicon and Arachne Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season Dat is herkenbaar en begrijpelijk

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Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics

Toxicon and Arachne Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season Dat is herkenbaar en begrijpelijkJoyelle McSweeney In Toxicon and Arachne, McSweeney allows the lyric to course through her like a toxin, producing a quiver of lyrics like poisoned arrows. Toxicon was written in anticipation of the birth of McSweeneys daughter, Arachne. But when Arachne was born sick, lived briefly, and then died, McSweeney unexpectedly endured a second inundation of lyricism, which would become the poems in Arachne, this time spun with grief. Toxicon and Arachne is