with your chest

“Remi's collection of poems looks at race, gender, childhood and relationships. There's poems about bodies, sex, injustice and love.” – The Bookish Type “ Pulling at the cords of gender's curtains, watchful of the slippages of our performative masks, With Your Chest is a luminously generous and vulnerable debut from Remi Graves. Their poems do justice to the failures and violences of category and yet — thirsting for more than this — are courageous enough to refuse to rest there. In a spirit of playfulness, of childhood, of starlings, Graves' poems glance towards the edges from which we leap,…