{"product_id":"d-i-y-body","title":"D I Y Body","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn D I Y BODY, Toni Garcia-Butler crafts a vibrant, defiant exploration of identity, inheritance, and self-making at the intersections of Black, Filipino, southern, and Trans\/queer experience. Through poems that move between memory, performance, and everyday ritual, Garcia-Butler builds a body not given, but claimed piece by piece, voice by voice. These poems are alive with sound and movement: karaoke bars become sites of transformation, kitchens hold the ghosts of lineage and love, and mosh pits offer fleeting freedom from misrecognition. This chapbook is a proclamation of naming, desire, family, and belonging, an insistence on the right to define the self beyond expectation or constraint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eWHEN I FIRST\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eencountered Toni Garcia-Butler's work, I recognized that feeling I've come to trust as a publisher. It's the one that says: pay attention, something is happening here. Something electric. These poems carry that kind of energy. Garcia-Butler reminds us that identity is not something handed over cleanly. It is something we build, protect, and celebrate, often in the same breath. This book holds exactly what I hoped the Arkansas Queer Poet Series would become: a space for voices that are rooted, rising, and reshaping what it means to belong.\" - Bryan Borland, Arkansas Queer Poet Series Curator\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTONI GARCIA-BUTLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(he\/they) is a poet and community artist rooted in Little Rock, Arkansas. He believes artists are cultural historians and memory keepers. His writing and art center the lived experiences of his people: Black, Fil-am, southern, Trans\/queer, and everyone existing within the margins. As a facilitator, Toni encourages folks to empower themselves through DIY publishing and zinemaking, personal narrative, and creative joy. Toni was named by the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eArkansas Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eas \"Best Poet of Arkansas\" in 2025.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Toni Garcia-Butler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44485064392746,"sku":"9781943977970","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/imageloader_61749e16-96ea-4541-a6c5-332c95350102.jpg?v=1781994099","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/d-i-y-body","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}