Intersectional ecofeminist poetics: Explores themes of gender, environment, and identity for a socially engaged literary voice
Personal and generational trauma: Delivers intimate insights into depression, physical disability, and intergenerational cycles
Anorexia and voicelessness: Addresses complex social and psychological experiences for a multidimensional narrative
Transformative consciousness: Seeks to illuminate and value the author's family legacy through poetry
Poetry collection format: Engages readers with powerful, thought-provoking verses
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The Problem with Having a Body unites Jessica Popeski's preoccupations with intersectional ecofeminist poetics and the genetic inheritance of fractured, grandmaternal generational lines. It examines how political and geographical rupture, war zones, and genocide generate traumatic, ancestral memory by chronicling the speaker's experiences