So, Stranger Books > Button Books The poems range from close

The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world

Their work does not apologize for existing at the intersections

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who appears within these pages to minimise the dangers of sex work and speculate about lesbians

the recovery from that trauma

So, Stranger Books > Button Books The poems range from closeTopaz Winters, 2022 Topaz Winters' third poetry collection spans three countries & three generations. In a far reaching & deftly woven series of ars poeticas, Winters questions the boundary between the things we inherit & those we owe, stands at the grave of the American dream, & unspools the enormous grace & guilt of being loved. So, Stranger stands as a fixed mark between the shifting histories & futures of being a daughter, being an artist, & being