Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing SG / Princeton\ whose work has defined poetry

whose work has defined poetry for a generation of new readers

They neither sanctify a man because he has died

— Ashia Ajani

good luck in the real world is a hard-earned and swervy testimony

and addiction to uncover what it means to be one person with many different identities

Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing SG / Princeton\ whose work has defined poetryIn its five year anniversary edition, Topaz Winters Portrait of My Body as a Crime Im Still Committing returns with ten new poems, a revised body of work, & a foreword by bestselling author Blythe Baird. An examination of desire as religion, food as compulsion, & illness as a gut reflex in the face of girlhoods little violences, Portrait haunts the landscape of self mythology & cuts straight into its own marrow. This book is a howl in the night, a