Tender Points

by

paperback, 144 pages

Published Oct. 29, 2019 by Nightboat Books.

ISBN:
9781643620282

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5 stars (1 review)

"Tender Points is a narrative fractured by trauma. Named after the diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia, the book-length lyric essay explores sexual violence, gendered illness, chronic pain, and patriarchy through the lenses of lived experience and pop culture (Twin Peaks, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, noise music, etc.)."

-- amyberko.com/#tender-points

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reviewed Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz

"My body is writing this and it's in pain."

5 stars

Tender Points was originally published in 2015 and in the intervening years its topics—sexual violence, chronic illness, and inequalities of medical care—have been much in the public psyche. I found this quiet, furious account to be emotionally re-situating. Pain and place and the expression and experience of art all tangled up together, as it is.