{"id":8362,"date":"2016-02-09T13:20:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T18:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=8362"},"modified":"2022-11-29T11:49:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T16:49:32","slug":"taxidermists-cut","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/taxidermists-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"The Taxidermist’s Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 98 pages \u2022 15.95
\nISBN-13: 978-1-935536-72-7<\/p>\n

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The Taxidermist’s Cut<\/em>\u00a0is the winner of the 2014 Four Way Books Intro Prize in Poetry and a finalist for Lambda Literary’s 29th Annual Award in Gay Poetry.<\/span><\/h5>\n

The Taxidermist’s Cut<\/em><\/h1>\n

Rajiv Mohabir<\/h2>\n

The Taxidermist\u2019s Cut<\/em> inhabits the experience of a queer brown youth awakening sexually in a racist, anti-immigrant matrix. As an Indo-Caribbean, the queer-countried speaker is illegible as an \u201cIndian\u201d as well as an \u201cAmerican.\u201d Haunted by his migration narrative, the speaker must survive a palimpsest of violence: violences enacted upon him both by himself and others. This is a collection of twisted love stories-as-slits that exposes the meat and bone of trauma and relief. Mohabir draws from source texts such as animal tracking guides and taxidermy manuals to highlight themes of discovery, preservation, and survival on all fronts.<\/p>\n

from \u201cCover Scent,\u201d from The Taxidermist’s Cut<\/em>:<\/p>\n

He lies naked with another boy in a clearing\nof palmettos and sand pines.\n\nThey touch each other\nwith rabbit skin gloves.\n\nToday: the odium of salt and pheromones.\nTo erase himself he rubs the ashes\n\non his arms and chest. Outside an\nEastern Cottontail hides three kits....<\/pre>\n
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