H. Melts matter-of-fact, precise, cartographic poems perform necessary care work for the trans people and places they attend to and yearn toward. Deeply grounded in the plain, bountiful fact of trans worldsand insisting on our worlds to comethis book offers all who need it a map to a world forever in bloom.
Cameron Awkward-Rich, author ofDispatch
There Are Trans People Hereis an ode to trans joy, resilience, and communal care. A trans-utopian manifesto for a world that let[s] us be beautiful / on our own terms. Melts verse is bold, stark, and uncompromising. Threading elements of familial narrative, memoir, and queer history, they trace through-lines from our past to a brighter, queerer future.
torrin a. greathouse, author ofWound From The Mouth Of A Wound
These poems meld individual resilience with collective resistance to illuminate the everyday beauty of trans lives in refusing the lure of conditional inclusion to instead challenge dominant institutions of oppression, demand structural change, and remake the world.
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author ofThe Freezer Door
