GHOST :: SEEDS: Poems Sarah Nelson It’s Karen's birthday

It’s Karen's birthday

A witch’s work is never done when she works for the people

All he wants is to be a warrior

and festivities” – Kirkus Reviews

without her

GHOST :: SEEDS: Poems Sarah Nelson It’s Karen's birthday2024 Stonewall Book Award Barbara Gittings Literature Award Honor Book 2024 Mass Book Awards Poetry Longlist Winner of The 2022 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, selected by Kimiko Hahn Set on a remote island on the Maine coast, GHOST :: SEEDS incorporates elements of magical realism and myth to explore and trouble conceptions of gender and identity. The central tension of this book length poem is a dialogue between a trans speaker and his ghost, the girl