Since I Moved In

by Trace Peterson

Poetry. In Tim Peterson's first collection of poems, SINCE I MOVED IN, ..".desire is the restless remainder of body subtracted from voice, or maybe it's voice from body. Whitmanian in its quick and tender grandeur, its penchant for direct address, and its abstract kinkiness and longing, SINCE I MOVED IN moves exorably from the transgendering (non) performance of 'Trans Figures' to the startled, suspended chiliasm of 'Spontaneous Generation, ' where at last the fetish body, dispersed into landscape, becomes simply an ambient mode of seeing, or saying, in a post-everything ecology where voice broods over the face of the waters, becoming the (prosthetic) body of the world"--Tenney Nathanson

Genres: Poetry

89 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Trace Peterson is a trans woman poet critic. Author of Since I Moved In (Chax Press, 2007), she is also founding editor of EOAGH, which has won two Lambda Literary Awards. She is coeditor of the anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2013) and coeditor of Arrive on Wave: Collected Poems of Gil Ott (Chax Press, 2016). Her work has appeared in Readings in Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology (Dia Art Foundation/Yale University Press, 2017), Best American Experimental Writing 2016 (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), and TSQ. Her second full-length book of poems is forthcoming from Ahsahta Press in 2020.

Reviews

[Paolo]

A book that I've returned to again and again the past year. Still trying to articulate why, but if it helps any, with each re-read I listen to my fave Fosca song, 'My Body Isn't Me': "And if in others' eyes/I'm still just in disguise,/ heed this above all else:/ I'm disguised as myself/I'm disguised as myself".

[Maxe]

One of my favorite books of poetry in recent memory. Such a voice!