A collection of poetry & prose about having & healing from an abortion, by Ryan Lindsay, out this fall.
"With the rights of women & uterus-having people under intense and massive assault, it seems incredibly poignant to read and celebrate a collection that turns its face into the light of abortion conversations and speaks freely about the choice to terminate a pregnancy. Lindsay's observations are astute, heartbreaking, triumphant, funny, heavy—reminding us that there is much to be learned in the harrowing & the healing."
-Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award Winner
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“Every now and again, I read art so committed to radical upheaval that it forces the reader to alter their shape to fit all the shapes of the art. Mine the Unseen is a textured polyphonic offering into the ways we live with loss and love. The manipulation of space is this book is otherworldly and I want to live in that artfully manipulated world. Glorious art is here.”
-Kiese Laymon, Author of Heavy & How to Slowly Kill Yourselves and Others in America
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Mine the Unseen is an honest exploration of deep love and deep loss. Lindsay's truth is not skimmed, watered-down or shied away from. The poetry and prose are glorious examples of self-mastery and a testament to what you can accomplish if you go inward and face yourself. The author invites us into the most intimate and most complicated parts of her life and the intricacies of choices afforded to her as a young black woman. Ryan Lindsay's tender book is not light reading, it is very heavy and very humane.
-Upile Chisala, Storyteller & Author of Soft Magic