Debridement

Product Description

Corrina Bain’s extraordinary first full-length collection Debridement echoes a body lost in motion. With a fearlessness at times shocking to the reader, Bain delivers the powerful punch which comes from trying to figure out who you are in a world not always built for that. Through humor, compassion, darkness, the dead and disappearing bodies, a shining light of a hope of something more appears. To debride is to remove the damaged flesh from a wound. Bain refuses to allow experience to rot within. His words tear, splice, lure, shift, to allow an exposure that leaves the reader shaken and yet honored to be a part of.
Finalist for The Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature 2016.

Review

“Buy Debridement. Read it, fight with it, love it. Give it to people you care about. You need it. We all do.”–PANK
“Bain has come out with a stunning stinger of a book, a collection that carries all the swelling emotion of someone who is in a constant state of rebirth.”–Bust Magazine
“Bain’s poetry is an assault, it is battery, it is bawdy and it is beautiful like a matador’s coup de grace….(His) swath cuts across political, sexual and social boundaries. These are exactly the sort of poems we need more of. “–Today’s Book of Poetry.
“Bain is a master of crafting devastating lines and images.” –The Pedestal