THEY’RE PUSHING THE PEARLS FROM THEIR CLAMS AND I CAN’T STOP WISHING

THEY’RE PUSHING THE PEARLS FROM THEIR CLAMS AND I CAN’T STOP WISHING is a poetry book about chronic pain and it’s spiralling mathematics, South Asian mermaids, and sea-shanty songs from a crippled sailor. Jaw surgery mock ups, shell-growth graphs, and dermatome charts mark the oscillating path of exile to exaltation that is a disabled life.

Cassandra Myers (My’z) (they/she/he) is an award winning poet, performer, dancer, illustrator, and counsellor from Tkaronto, Ontario. As a queer, non-binary, South-Asian-Italian, crip, mad, survivor of sexual violence, Cassandra’s work is cinematic and juicy with its critical anti-oppressive eye. Cassandra’s work has won national literary and spoken word titles including the National Magazine GOLD Award in Poetry and Champion of the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word. Their work has been internationally received at the Ada Lovelace Festival in Berlin, and elsewhere. Find their poetry in ARC Poetry Magazine, Canthius, the Tahoma Literary Review, and more. Find them @cass.myers.poetry or at www.cassmyers.com