Through the New Body by Isabella DeSendi

Introduced & selected by Evie Shockley. The Poetry Society of America (chapbook, 2020)

"DeSendi’s poetry is generous. It tells you where you are, even when that where is a space of limbo....We are in limbo, because we are in the world in the body of a girl-becoming-woman, an American with Cuban matrilineage, a sufferer who causes suffering. Autobiographical or not, these poems give us a figure who seeks to understand her own distress in relation to that experienced by women of different ages and backgrounds." —Evie Shockley