Stacey Balkun\'s debut full-length collection, Sweetbitter , is an examination of youth, gender, sexuality, and yearning at an atomic level.
Sweetbitter is a gripping, sometimes suspenseful, poetry collection that leaves you hungry for more..
With Balkun\'s hazy, dream-like storytelling, the speaker is a wild creature challenging the social confines of being human, being girl.
In it, puberty is swimming in a toxic pond and recklessness is disguised as control.
From sapphic longing and poisoned baptisms to contaminated bodies and the gendered erosion of autonomy, Sweetbitter is the product of a restless coming-of-age story.
The speaker takes us with them into the wilderness, wanting the world to be perceived differently, begging to be seen as more.
The collection reads like a fever dream as Balkun uncovers the radioactive darkness that hides beneath the earth\'s surface and how it seeps into the lives of those who come near.
Stacey Balkun\'s debut full-length collection, Sweetbitter , is an examination of youth, gender, sexuality, and yearning at an atomic level
