Description
CBC Best Poetry Book 2024
A collection of poetry reclaiming Catholic prayers and biblical passages to empower girls, women, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
The extreme level of sass in Emily Austin's Gay Girl Prayers does not mean that this collection is irreverent. On the contrary, in rewriting Bible verses to affirm and uplift queer, feminist, and trans realities, Austin invites readers into a giddy celebration of difference and a tender appreciation for the lives and perspectives of "strange women."
Packed with zingy one liners, sexual innuendo, self-respect, U-Hauling, and painfully earnest declarations of love, this is gayness at its best, harnessed to a higher purpose and ready to fight the powers that be.
Author: Emily Austin
Publisher: Brick Books
Published: 03/01/2024
Pages: 72
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9781771316224
ISBN10: 1771316225
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | LGBTQ+
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Religious
- Poetry | Women Authors
About the Author
Emily Austin is the author of We Could Be Rats, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead, Interesting Facts About Space, and the poetry collection Gay Girl Prayers. She was born in Ontario, Canada, and received two writing grants from the Canadian Council for the Arts. She studied English literature and library science at Western University. She currently lives in Ottawa, in the territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation.