BRILLIANT ODYSSEY DON'T YEARN - Tecno-Libro

Finn Menzies is a transmasculine writer and preschool teacher. He lives and works in Seattle, Washington. He holds his MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. Finn Menzies debut collection brilliant odyssey don t yearn is the unspooling of a body noticing its multiplicity, a book like a scarf a magician might pull from their sleeve, astonishing at each new length drawn. investigating the tangle of guilt and affirmation within the press of identity, Menzies poem glide over and beneath the skin. A uncompromising offering, this book is a directive, an invitation committed to tenderly dismantling a social structure organ by organ, a gentleness felt even as Menzies undoubtedly pierces the status quo. Simultaneously crushing and consoling, brilliant odyssey don t yearn is a quiet and unfettered gift, poetry arising from need: humane, graceful, redemptive. . -Soph