raised her children and fostered many others

I gave my Antelope Woman her wise wildness

imaginative

But Skinner's untimely death in 1925 thwarted their plans

In the 1950s he took a chance and

day/break staff pick raised her children and fosteredday break, Governor General's Literary Award Winner Gwen Benaway's fourth collection of work, explores the everyday poetics of the trans feminine body. Through intimate experiences and conceptualizations of trans life, day break asks what it means to be a trans woman, both within the text and out in the physical world. Shifting between theory and poetry, Benaway questions how gender, sexuality, and love intersect with the violence and transmisogyny of