Negative Money
Negative Money by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, published by Catapult on June 27, 2023, is a poetry collection that explores the complexities of life lived in financial and emotional extremes. With 112 pages, this edition presents a speaker’s ongoing journey of self-discovery while examining the intersections of racial and gender identity, as well as the tensions between love and loneliness, security and precarity.
Readers will find a diverse range of poetic forms, including acrostics and sonnets, as Bertram employs innovative and thoughtful language to address themes of economic disparity and social justice. The poems reflect on the oppressive systems that shape personal experiences, articulating the exhaustion that arises from navigating these challenges. Through a blend of muscular lyricism and conceptual experimentation, Negative Money invites contemplation on identity and the societal structures that influence our lives.
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Finalist for the New England Book Award
From a National Book Award nominated poet, this collection is about a life lived in the red, on the edges of great lack and great abundance, of financial and emotional margins
Negative Money follows a speaker continually coming of age while probing the binary thresholds of racial and gender identity, violence and safety, security and precarity, love and loneliness.
For readers of Readers Claudia Rankine, Torrey Peters, Ocean Vuong, and Jericho Brown, NBA nominated Lillian-Yvonne Bertrams’s poems are innovative, conceptually thoughtful work. Through experimentation and muscular lyricism, Bertram maintains a style that observes a speaker’s attempt to understand and exert multiple identities within the binary confines of race and gender.
Playing and gliding from acrostics to sonnets to maps, these compassionate, cerebral, and irreverent poems plainly recognize the larger and potentially escapable oppressive systems that dominate all of our lives by narrating the exhaustion that comes from living under constraining systems of relentless extraction, systems whose powers fracture all attempts at genuine love and intimacy.
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