In Lieu of Solutions by Violet Spurlock

Violet Spurlock’s In Lieu of Solutions investigates the problems that trans life creates for language while questioning contemporary assumptions about poetry as a tool for solving social and political problems. The poems both employ and dissect common poetic techniques in a probing and unsparing manner. Despite its critical bent, the book is not cynical in its view of poetry as a medium; instead, it wagers that refusing to make poetry into a solution will amplify and radicalize its potent excitation of our thinking, our imagination, and our resolve.

Fall 2023
104 pages, 6 x 8 inches
Paperback Poetry
979-8-9889439-0-7
$20 U.S.