PRAISE:
“An unsentimental exploration of womanhood, power, and becoming. With language both fierce and luminous, Harris invokes transformation and insists that a woman’s selfhood is not bestowed, but claimed.”
–Danielle Coffyn, Pushcart Prize-winning author of If Adam Picked the Apple
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“Loria Harris‘s the woman in my Relationship with Life is a vital addition to the poetry of female experience. In these precise and gripping verses, the roles women carry, by choice, necessity, or force, are interrogated. Harris’s deft verse reminds us of the need to speak, as they also ask ‘to not/ stop the silence.’ In a world always seeking to label, Harris’s stunning collection claims the right to self-define, as her poem asserts, ‘I’m forbidden. I’m the woman in my relationship with life.'”
–Shana Youngdahl, author of A Cage to Welcome
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“Loria Harris crafts a fierce, unflinching exploration of womanhood that refuses easy categories. These poems—raw, lyrical, and unapologetic—confront the body’s hungers and burdens, the myths of motherhood, the quiet rebellions of silence, and the wild, untamed pulse of existence itself.”
–Lisa Haag, author of A Benign Sort of Cannibalism, winner of the 2014 Clockwise poetry chapbook competition
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