To Love a Fierceness so Bright

Chelsea Fanning's debut poetry book, To Love a Fierceness So Bright, is a fiercely nuanced portrait of womanhood. Full of witchcraft, grit, ferocity, and tenderness, Fanning dissects with piercing precision the power names hold - both those that we take up willingly, and those thrust upon us. Here you will find the virgin and the slut, the hysterical woman and the monstrous female. Equal parts unsettling and edifying, this fevered collection invites us to reclaim the narratives that seek to constrain us and to "re-form them from all our bones."