How to Identify Yourself with a Wound

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Award-winning collection of poems by poet and change-maker, KB“The poems in How to Identify Yourself with a Wound pull no punches. Raw honesty paired with concise language inhabit and fully embody a life shaped by the intersection of race, class, sexuality, and gender. This is my favorite kind of poetry, necessary and urgent, revealing and saving and healing and re-creating both poet and reader.” - ire’ne laura silva, author of CUICACALLI/House of Song, 2021 Saguaro poetry prize judge"The powerful lines, the no-holds-barred voice, and risk-taking candor of these dynamic debut poems make the reader hungry for a whole volume." -Cyrus Cassells, 2021 Poet Laureate of Texas“Readers can expect to witness the origins of an audacious and empowered advocate whose lyric and inquisitiveness bodes well for the future of poetry." -Faylita Hicks, author of HOODWITCH“Read this book when you need a good cry, or a knowing look across the room: when you need to be reminded of what tethers you to yourself.” - Ariana Brown, author of We Are Owed.