“BEING”
Robin Gow
Artist Statement: I have been working on erasures and fragmentations of insurance companies policies on gender "reassignment" procedures. I think this relates to decomp journal's mission both because the poems make legible the process of distorting the source text and also are attempting to ask of these texts "what does trans embodiment mean?"
Robin Gow is a trans poet and young adult author from rural Pennsylvania. They are the author of Our Lady of Perpetual Degeneracy (Tolsun Books 2020) and the chapbook Honeysuckle (Finishing Line Press 2019). Their first young adult novel, A Million Quiet Revolutions is forthcoming March 2022 with FSG Books for Young Readers. Gow's poetry has recently been published in POETRY, Southampton Review, and Yemassee.
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