“Visceral, insistent, beyond transgressive, meant to wake up feeling does just that. It is a palpable writing of the body in Helene Cixious's demanding and powerful sense of the act. Gratitude to Aimee Herman for getting under our skin, and moving poetry-in-discourse into the feminist present and future where we study and yearn for the salvation of humanity.”—Anne Waldman

“Aimee Herman’s latest volume of poetry, meant to wake up feeling, could be described as poetic counterterrorism. Rather than mounting a series of covert actions, however, these poems intimately resist the terrorism of the powerful (or the righteously normative) against the embodied other. The book lives up to its title and its mission, as both model and process of resistance....The work done in this book is desperately necessary. The next time someone grumbles about the uselessness of poetry, put these poems in their hands."—Rain Taxi

Aimee Herman is a Brooklyn-based queer writer and educator with two full-length books of poetry, and a novel Everything Grows (Three Rooms Press, 2019). Aimee is a founding member of the poetry band Hydrogen Junkbox.

Publication date October 10, 2014

$16.00

ISBN: 978-0-9857317-4-8