The late Callie Gardner's only full-length poetry collection.

Callie Gardner's debut collection of poetry, part manifesto, part lyrical essay. A remarkable collection transmitting the reader through various discourses and offering a litberation from the violent expectations of living to reproduce bodies, feelings, and nations.

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Naturally, It Is Not is a deeply pleasurable work. It invites the reader to follow the poet to encounters at the peripheries of an undivided rural-urban, between the phantasmatic and concrete, and to attend to ecosystems of linguistic fancy. If our forms of life from the human to the cellular have been shaped, contained and truncated by racial capitalism, this book illuminates senses of being that expand poetrys necessity for the lives we have and will live.