Description: Proprioception moves through ideas of race, of fear, of sexuality, of life already lived in low-level terror now amplified, of the weight of responsibility, of the burdens of age--trying to find a way to breathe every day in what is now a permanent upset of an already shaky imbalance, to find my new position in spaces erupting with old hate, old jealousies, old greeds.
Review Quotes: "C. Prudence Arceneaux is a brilliant poet of immense ferocity & velocity. The poems of Proprioception move with muscular grace, surprise, and startle, feeling utterly fresh, unlike anyone else's poems. How Arceneaux manages to be wry, sexy, contemplative, and rueful all at once, is a wonder. I love the weed pulling! What a gift. Sprung from astonishment, whirling, shifting, pitching a mind into wild new states of being, these poems are alive."
--Naomi Shihab Nye, author of Everything Comes Next and The Tiny Journalist
--Naomi Shihab Nye