"Early on in Zoe Estelle Hitzel's Gender Flytrap, she both
catalogues and commands, 'Hope to be just another/sound, a
shiver/between teeth.' This book enacts and then surpasses that
insistent wish, becoming a generous and necessary collection of
'the body's wide-flung wing.' How thankful I am that this writing
of perseverance--which is to say, transition--exists. Buy it for
yourself, then buy it for your library, then buy a copy and leave
it on a bus or at a ball field. This 'small sun' is a gift."
--TC Tolbert, author of Gephyromania and co-editor of Troubling the
Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics
"Whose body is this? Gender Flytrap says, the body is territory
that has been claimed, bordered, tilled, sold, and excavated. Zoe
Estelle Hitzel's words take those sales, borders, and excavations
and pull an extravagant wildness from them. This body isn't yours.
It's mine, she roars. I've never understood better than I do now,
or with such elegance and grace, that our bodies, and our words,
are not for the taking."
--Nicole Walker, author of The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical
Essays on a Changing Planet and Sustainability: A Love Story
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