Synopsis
Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing is an award-winning, omnivorous collection of poetry residing in the space between confessional & manifesto. Portrait is interested in the immediacy of language; in girlhood as wolfhood; in the cartography of illness; in fractures through the dark; in bodies, human & water alike. Luminous, tender, & unflinching, Portrait cuts straight to the marrow. To all those whose bodies have been more bruise than human—who feel so loudly the sky turns black in fear—this book is for you.
About the Authors
Topaz Winters is the Singaporean-American author of So, Stranger (Button Poetry 2022, winner of the Button Poetry Short Form Contest & a LitBowl Best Poetry Book of 2022) & Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing (Button Poetry 2019 & 2024, finalist in the Broken River & Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prizes). She serves as editor-in-chief of Half Mystic Press, an independent, international, & interdisciplinary publishing project. Topaz's poetry, fiction & nonfiction are published in The Drift, Waxwing, Passages North, Pithead Chapel, The Boiler, & others. Her work has received support from the Studios at MASS MoCA, the Sundress Academy for the Arts, & the National YoungArts Foundation. She lives between New York & Singapore.
Lim Charlotte (b.1998, Singapore) is an emerging artist who is currently pursuing her Fine Arts Degree at LASALLE College of the Arts. Exploring the nuances of the human condition and interrelationships, Lim's work revolves around the human body, its ornate form, its placement, its existence in a space shared amongst other matter. As an art form, she believes the human body and its different parts can be dismantled and remodelled; and be grounded in new meaning. Sensing the notions of scale within spaces all matter inhabit; the minuscule, the vast, and everything in between, Lim creates a dialogue around the fragility of traditionalism and the elucidation of self defying sexual affirmation - striving to become both the content and its critique, adhering to classical norms while admonishing them. The themes she usually works with are space, power, and conversely, vulnerability and fragility. All her works are derived from personal experiences, such as addiction, mental illnesses, being institutionalised - and thus attempts to physically manifest individual solace. She has exhibited at Gajah Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (ICAS) and Goodman Arts Centre and was awarded the 30 Art Friends Scholarship in 2015.
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