Tender Points

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Published Nov. 8, 2015 by Timeless, Infinite Light.

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978-978-193-742-2
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"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.)." -from amyberko.com/#tender-points

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reviewed Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz

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

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.