Freedom House by KB Brookins

Freedom House

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Freedom House by KB Brookins

Deep Vellum Publishing

Freedom House

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Freedom House is a poetry collection that explores internal, interpersonal, and systemic freedom.

In this debut full-length collection, KB Brookins' formally diverse, music-influenced poetry explores transness, politics of the body, gentrification, sexual violence, climate change, masculinity, and afrofuturism while chronicling their transition and walking readers through different "rooms". The speaker isn't afraid to call themselves out while also bending time, displaying the terror of being Black/queer/trans in Texas, and more - all while using humor and craft.

What does freedom look like? What can we learn from nature and our past? How do you reintroduce yourself in a world that refuses queerness? How can we use poetry as a tool in the toolbox that helps build freedom? This collection explores those questions, and manifests a world where Black, queer, and trans people get to live.

Book Details
Publisher:
Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN:
9781646052639
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
120
Authors:
Kb Brookins
Published Date:
2023-06-06
Language:
English
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About Kb Brookins

KB Brookins won the Saguaro Poetry Prize from Kallisto Gaia Press. The prize went to the chapbook How to Identify Yourself with a Wound. Freedom House came from Deep Vellum in 2023 and won the American Library Association's 2024 Stonewall Book Awards – Barbara Gittings Literature Award. Their memoir Pretty won the 2025 Lambda Literary Award in transgender nonfiction and a 2025 GLCA New Writers Award. They held a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry in 2023, and live in Austin.

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