Cumflower
by Yvonne LeBien

Cumflower
By Yvonne LeBien
Co-published with Wendy’s Subway
1st Edition of 200
44 pages
Risograph printed at Wendy’s Subway.
September 2020

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Yvonne LeBien’s cumflower, their first book of poems, is consumed with desire: to know the self, to make oneself known, and to undo that knowledge and the authoritative voice that shapes it. Caustic with irony, contradiction, failure, confusion, and violence—both against macho-intellectualism and the macho-embodied poet—LeBien’s poems overflow and inescapably manipulate their author. Working within and against the gauze of confessionalism and the mythos of the American Poet, LeBien confronts the possibilities of speech without authorship, vulnerability without use, and selfhood without delimitation.  

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