About The Author


C.A. Singh is definitely a human person. They live and write in the state of Nebraska with three cats, a mom, and a sister. They are the poet responsible for How To Age and a related collection titled My Body and I Share the Same Name.
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How To Age

Poems

Overview


A surrealist walk through the aftermath of intimate partner sexual assault. How to Age is an unflinching collection about what it means to grow older while carrying the weight of the past. In poems that oscillate between softness and severity, dream and memory, the speaker traverses the landscapes of trauma, family, grief, and survival with bare clarity and emotional precision. This is a book of hauntings—by selves, by others, by time itself. With striking vulnerability and a voice that does not look away, How to Age charts the difficult, intimate process of becoming.
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In poems that pulse with longing, violence, and strange tenderness, How To Age moves through a disorienting lapse of time in which memory, intimacy, and trauma are precariously wound together. The collection is both isolating and smothering, calling upon dreams, music, fleeting memories, and raw exorcisms of emotion. Caught between childhood and something much older, between the need to remember and the urge to forget, these poems refuse easy resolution. Instead, they settle in a space where growing up doesn't mean leaving anything behind and the past refuses to stay buried. This is not a memoir and should not be read as a direct retelling of real events. Content warnings include: sexual assault, animal death, self-harm, horror, and substance abuse. C.A. Singh is the author of a previous collection titled My Body and I Share the Same Name and lives and writes in Nebraska.
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Book details

  • Genre:poetry
  • Sub-genre:General
  • Language:English
  • Pages:60
  • Paperback ISBN:9798317801113

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