These moments could serve to pique the interest of comics fans in poetry-or perhaps vice versa it’s a curious experiment, in any case. of women throughout history as well as a very embodied voice of motherhood. The artistic fusion, when it works, offers a theatricality akin to a slam poet playing on stage. Wendy Chin-Tanner is the author of the poetry collection Turn (Sibling. But in other pairings, ironically more prosaic visual interpretations of a poem’s dominant images elide their textual complexity (Maggie Smith’s “Good Bones” is interpreted literally in the comic by Carola Borelli as a real estate transfer), while meter, text alignment, and deliberate use of letter case disappear when poems are adapted into comics panels. There are successes here: the “University Toxic” comic by Kaylee Rowena uses vibrant color to drive home the realities of workplace harassment as portrayed in Laura Hinton’s poem, while Y Sanders’s comic “Drown” packs eroticism into intricate inking that expresses a fulsome narrative arc with a mere handful of panels, representing the poem by Venus Thrash. Beautifully illustrated and bracingly written, EMBODIED is a memorable collaboration between cis female, trans, and non-binary poets and comics artists showcasing the power of both forms in a stunningly unique keepsake volume that will be treasured for ages. Every talent assembled, from the poets to the illustrators to the letterers, identifies as a woman or as nonbinary, and the ground they cover is vast, touching on the exhilaration of childbirth, the alienation of immigration, and the timelessness of great art. Embodied: An Intersectional Feminist Comics Poetry Anthology a book by Diamond Comic Distributors Inc, Wendy Chin-Tanner, and Tyler Chin-Tanner 24,111,047. Each chapter opens with a short comic, which interprets a poem, which is replicated as original text following the comic. This ambitious anthology of feminist comics poetry aims high, and soars in some selections.

Embodied by Wendy Chin-Tanner