Böcker av Allison Blevins

Straddling genres--prose poetry, micro memoir, fairy tale, autofiction--Where Will We Live If the House Burns Down is first and foremost the story of a marriage. Borrowing elements from surrealist writer and artists, it explores the affects of chronic illness, disability, and a spouse's gender transition. All of these issues swirl through the central marital relationship and the daily lives of its two lead characters, Sergeant and Grim--even as the book's narrator, unreliable and unobjective, increasingly takes center stage. Reminiscent as much of contemporary fiction by writers like Sabrina Orah Mark and Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum as of poets or memoirists, this book is as engrossing as it is experimental, traversing complicating difficult domestic and emotional terrain by way of Allison Blevins' vivid imagination.

A delicious fever, a fervent tapestry, a bone-bearingly honest epistolary journey-Allison Blevins and Josh Davis' fiery poppies bruising their own throats is a richly textured exploration of disability, queerness, relationship, and the profoundness of intimacy that only poets know. This is a book for people who know darkness is a necessity for light, who know loss makes meaning, and who know the precise moment when bodies bend until they break-before coming together again to face the darkness and light as new.-Sarah Clark, editor of beestung and ANMLY

"If I can give myself anything, let it be a way into anger," a reasonable creed for navigating a life continually demanding passivity toward the violence and loss it inflicts. Allison writes the plights of mothers, daughters, lovers and spouses in a voice that endures scars and calluses but refuses to accept them as necessary. "Some unbecomes happen slowly." This book provides precise detail of ascendance above survival.