ArticlesTea Gerbeza
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PoetryLong poem shares process of building kinship with pain, rebuilding sense of self
Tea Gerbeza’s powerful debut, the long poem How I Bend Into More, affirms disabled identity by giving voice to the body in all its complexities. Drawing from her personal experience with scoliosis, Gerbeza uses an intimate and inventive poetics to “grasp / what [her] body has / to tell [her]” and, in doing so, records a journey from ableism toward reclamation.
