Pass with Care is a memoir of becoming, an essay collection as layered and lovely as the life it describes: from working-class kidhood to '90s dyke utopia to life of letters, I cheered this hero on at every turn. SARAH SCHULMAN, author of Maggie Terry, The Cosmopolitan, and Conflict is Not Abuse Pass with Care is moving in both senses of the word. Cooper is deep, he searches, he travels, relates through different forms, different voices, an emotional gravitas as the only constant.He works to separate the ever-changing issues of being a complex person with the ever-changing experience of being trans, so that trans and person become one and Cooper and person become one, as the land and cities shift. This is a volume of juxtapositions and repositions looking for a self/other relationship of balance. Multi-faceted and textured.By taking stock of his own faults and failures, successes and dreams, enables us to more clearly see ourselves, which is memoir’s highest purpose. One of the year's strongest essay collections.
In a voice that meshes disarming humanity with humor, the author chronicles his journey through life as a trans man, making peace with experiences that wounded him and led him to become the human being he now is. BOOK RIOTĪ reflection on generational changes of queer life, on two decades and change into life as a trans man.insightful and wise and touching - LAMBDA LITERARY REVIEWĪ gorgeously rendered response to what one might call the “Now what?” question: After an experience as metamorphic and all-consuming as a gender transition, what happens next? Who do we become after that becoming? Where do we locate meaning? - THE RUMPUSĪ record of bygone eras―notably the queer punk scene of nineties San Francisco― Pass With Care is equally a contemporary political text that wrestles with questions of queerness, transness, and masculinity as they unfold today and into the future.
Bombardier full#
These essays are personal, honest, and sensitive, and full of valuable insights into gender and masculinity. Pass with Care: Memoirs is a necessary and important glimpse into a living trans history as Bombardier explores how much the world has changed and made room for trans people. Through lyrically constructed prose, Bombardier introduces us to the fraught and beaming world of being queer, trans, and of passing in the world as a man.
LILY BURANA, author of Grace for Amateurs: Field Notes on a Journey Back to Faith, I Love a Man in Uniform, and Strip City In singular blue-collar lyricism, Bombardier brings the trans-masc experience into view―gritty as a classic honkytonk song, and as unforgettable, too.
Pass with Care pairs heart-in-hand vulnerability with the split-knuckle candor of venerated queer voices like Dorothy Allison and Saeed Jones. Finalist for the 2021 Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction
0 kommentar(er)
