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From Red Washburn’s poem,“156 Ave and Madison Road,” they draw me deep into the narrative reckoning and artistry of Birch Philosopher X. To and through the pathos of “Tit- Bucket and Denim” and “She Doesn’t Want to be She Anymore,” to the streets and haunts of my own D.C. home in the evocative “Enjera,” and all their wonderful and lyrical scenes of nature and their love of flowers, Washburn calls forth a magical and raw power transfixing the reader.
–Cheryl Clarke, By My Precise Haircut
To be on the inside with all that fire – this is how it feels to read Red Washburn’s surging, searching tenderstorm of a feminist, trans project. Over and over again, I thought of Riki Wilchins who wrote, in 2004, that binaries are the blackholes of knowledge. Wonderfully insistent on learning, growing, reflecting and thus forever expanding, Birch Philosopher X is the epitome of and.
–TC Tolbert, Gephyromania
Red Washburn’s poetry collection, Birch Philosopher X, is both affirming and necessary. Their use of personal and political “theirstory/herstory/history” serves as a queer thread connecting past, present and future. Their poems interrogate, explore, educate, and take us on a journey. They ask, “What story does the body tell?” and their poems answer/deconstruct/analyze the body in unexpected ways. Poems that document the narrator’s trans identity are especially powerful. These poems are doing that life work and we, the reader, are left better for it.
–JP Howard, SAY/MIRROR
Birch Philosopher X
by Red Washburn
$19.99, FUll-length, paper
978-1-64662-661-8
2021
Red Washburn, PhD, is Associate Professor of English and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at CUNY Kingsborough. They also teach Women’s and Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center. They are the co-editor of Women’s Studies Quarterly, published by the Feminist Press. Finishing Line Press published their chapbook Crestview Tree Woman.
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