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Dankbriv is my first full-length poetry book, collecting my best poems from the past three years which have not yet been published in a chapbook. The poems in this book were Patreon exclusives, poems written for my scrapped (E)Stranged Earth chapbook of Marxist poetry, and poems previously published in now-defunct indie literary magazines; as well as a few completely new poems. The book is 80 pages long, including 77 pages of poetry, and a variety of open source, creative commons, and public domain illustrations.
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There is no singular theme for this book, instead poems are sorted into chapters based on themes of love, longing, disability, queerness, Autism, Hair Skin and Nails; Alienated Labor, inciting riots, looking ahead to a grim and hopeful future, rivers, geography, and poetry about being an essential worker during the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the poems is in Yiddish and many of the poems draw from Judaism.