"there is no wish you were here / without you wish," say the friends keeping the sun in each other. little church of lost accents coming back in unison, bay to river to aubade.
a collage-like mixtape of techniques and influences, when there is no one and there is everyone explores how to story a self to life in an unjust world, where gentrification and intersecting oppressions play themselves out in the intimate geographies of bodies, minds, and cities.
Featured on Lit Hub's 10 Small Press Books You Don't Want to Miss, rex renée leonowicz's debut collection of poems and illustrations is a celebration of friendship, freakdom, and what it means when people on the margins come together to rough it out in tough times. available from magic helicopter press.
a collage-like mixtape of techniques and influences, when there is no one and there is everyone explores how to story a self to life in an unjust world, where gentrification and intersecting oppressions play themselves out in the intimate geographies of bodies, minds, and cities.
Featured on Lit Hub's 10 Small Press Books You Don't Want to Miss, rex renée leonowicz's debut collection of poems and illustrations is a celebration of friendship, freakdom, and what it means when people on the margins come together to rough it out in tough times. available from magic helicopter press.
“leonowicz’s debut collection is a real gem of performance text, illustration, and poetry, that will charm the reader with its political awareness, frank humor, and downright sweetness.” -Unnameable Books
“these are poems in search of a relationship with queer bodies and lives that isn’t only about hope or heartbreak, a relationship with the city that isn’t just about creation or destruction, and a relationship with an embodied self beyond broken posturing or hollow rhetoric.” -Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of Sketchtasy
“this collection is evidence of floriferous liberation. there are more queer youth & we’re coming out younger than ever before in the hrstory of humanity, of globalization, & here is why you will want these tales of lived words to recall, rally, & recant directly from the poet, non-binary, beauty truth seeker h / e /r them self.” -Bonfire Madigan Shive, founding member of The Icarus Project & Tattle Tale
“i see myself within these poems, my longing for home, family, friendships, sweethearts—and adventures in between. leonowicz reminds us that we are all of these things: the subway stops, the bagel shops, rainbow cookie, glittery stoop kid, weirdo. we are never too far from home, we are everywhere and everyone—even when there is no one.” -Jova Lynne, transdisciplinary artist & co-founder of Raising Voices Collective
"in these poems you will find many desires, many hearts, and many games, but throughout you will hear a loud, pulsating heart working furiously and diligently, bearing witness to the heartache of past and present.” -Ro Garrido, interdisciplinary artist
“these are poems in search of a relationship with queer bodies and lives that isn’t only about hope or heartbreak, a relationship with the city that isn’t just about creation or destruction, and a relationship with an embodied self beyond broken posturing or hollow rhetoric.” -Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of Sketchtasy
“this collection is evidence of floriferous liberation. there are more queer youth & we’re coming out younger than ever before in the hrstory of humanity, of globalization, & here is why you will want these tales of lived words to recall, rally, & recant directly from the poet, non-binary, beauty truth seeker h / e /r them self.” -Bonfire Madigan Shive, founding member of The Icarus Project & Tattle Tale
“i see myself within these poems, my longing for home, family, friendships, sweethearts—and adventures in between. leonowicz reminds us that we are all of these things: the subway stops, the bagel shops, rainbow cookie, glittery stoop kid, weirdo. we are never too far from home, we are everywhere and everyone—even when there is no one.” -Jova Lynne, transdisciplinary artist & co-founder of Raising Voices Collective
"in these poems you will find many desires, many hearts, and many games, but throughout you will hear a loud, pulsating heart working furiously and diligently, bearing witness to the heartache of past and present.” -Ro Garrido, interdisciplinary artist