Description: "Chronicling one year in the life of a queer couple facing life-threatening illness, this sequence of poems explore what words can do to hold off loss and death while living on in a world of injustice and sorrow"--
Review Quotes:
"Every leaf, flower, snowflake, butterfly in Magnified is impeccably coated and coded with existential time, anti-capitalist time. Magnified is a profoundly intimate record of personal sorrow as well as 'poetry to action'--in its resistance against empire's economic and military destruction."--Don Mee Choi, author of DMZ Colony
"The poems in Magnified model a fearless relation with lost beloveds that is gorgeous, queer and fiercely alive. Minnie Bruce Pratt, who always writes verse with palpating radical breath, here ignites it with a vision for revolutionary afterlife."--Rachel Levitsky, author of The Story of My Accident Is Ours
"'Revolution is bigger than both of us, revolution is a science that infers the future presence of us, ' writes Pratt. Magnified is a history of the beloved's last days, and in crafting that history Pratt has crafted posterity, sending revolutionary love into the future that we may learn from it."--Kerri Webster, Visiting Assistant Professor, Boise State University
"In this elegiac and essential book, Minnie Bruce Pratt focuses a Dickinsonian extreme attention on the natural world, its changes magnified by an approaching death, with the human exchanges essential to her activism as much in focus as a walnut shell, a poplar leaf, the breath of the beloved."--Marilyn Hacker, author of Blazons