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“In this wildness of abjection, trans poetics offered me a language upon which my future reflection could lean.”
“Article continues after advertisement Poetry is a form that relies on—or brings about—the failure of language.”
“As trans people, each articulation of who we are is also an articulation of who we will no longer be.”
“Currently, Sanam teaches creative writing at Haverford College.”
“So too is the terrain of trans becoming—imagining one’s body outside the limits of its given lines.”
“Their debut poetry collection HUM (University of Nebraska Press, 2026) won the Backwaters Prize in Poetry.”
“His lyric levitates in the lace between image and music, somehow taking form without taking shape.”
“Johnson, in his poem ‘Chiaroscuro’ writes, “beautiful projection, boy in the mirror, boy in my mind.”
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“In this way, simile and metaphor stretch beyond what’s possible to bring us closer to what’s true.”
“What once felt like me alone in a surgeon’s office becomes a we .”
“And so lyric arrives, unbridled by the laws of grammar, pressing its hooves to the measure of music.”
““I have been made anew / like the first hour of sun / after days of rain.” These are the opening lines of the penultimate poem in HUM, titled “Trans/figuration.” My making—my trans becoming—comes not only from the surgeon’s scalpel and the barber’s clippers and my lover’s hands, but from the trans poets writing before and beside me, offering a conversation I may lift my lyric to, a music that sings my reality.”
“In Urdu—my mother tongue—the word hum can mean both “we” and “I.” In English, it’s a gesture of sound.”
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