Chenille or Silk

A startling first collection of confessional poetry examining the slippery relations of desire, class, embodiment and trauma. Emma McKennas writing traverses the bounds and the wounds of a family marked by poverty and intergenerational trauma. The collection asserts the primacy of intimacy and sexuality to subjectivity, as the poems move through the struggle to find identity, love and belonging in an urban queer communitys ever-shifting economy of desire. Striking, brave and at times uncomfortable, this collection captures the ambivalence -- and the hope -- of possibility.