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Through The Red Door’s Open Maw by Jessica June Cato
From the Introduction: Through the Red Door’s Open Maw is a reckoning with the residual guilt and self-perception that haunts the bones—lineage, familial abandonment, addiction, mental illness, and queerphobia traced back to that red door, the open maw. Cato reflects on love as foreign—comparing ancestries as if checking the past to see if there is anything innate in her familial bones, makeup, or core.
This chapbook is a naked and honest reflection about what remains of one’s past self and how to break free from beliefs of what is intrinsic to selfhood, to live beyond into goodness that need not be compared with personal history; instead, can shine all on its own.
—Matthew Feinstein, author of Breeds of Breath