Horrible Dance HISTORYGeneral resilience and perseverance

resilience and perseverance

a loner plunging through city streets and into the woods

showing us that love knows no bounds

under logs and inside a wheelbarrow

spanning all styles and continents

Horrible Dance HISTORYGeneral resilience and perseveranceSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD A brilliant poetic debut about gender based violence that dismantles received definitions of both gender and violence, Horrible Dance is an accomplished addition to transfeminist thought and theory. By turns darkly comic, emotionally connected, playful, incisive, lyrical and irreverent, Lake's poems navigate a harrowing personal and political terrain with understated, expansive wisdom. Lake