i am thankful for feeling & for the first time on earth - Sarena Brown
i am thankful for feeling & for the first time on earth - Sarena Brown
EVERY CORNER OF THE PERSON I GOT TO BE WAS ENOUGH
Releases and Ships: September 2022
36 Pages
5.8” x 8.3”
Ltd. Edition
PREORDER WINDOW: July 1st - August 15th. After this period, physical copies of this title will no longer be available for purchase.
Butt dials. Queer crushes. Small dogs with big names. In their debut chapbook, Sarena Brown opens their arms to beauty, joy, and good things while rejecting the notions of hopelessness, cishet conformity, and life without french fries with the effusiveness of a string of astral emojis. i am thankful for feeling & the first time on earth is a massive little book that is as brave as it is vulnerable, a self-compassionate guided meditation that waltzes across the lines between understanding & oversharing. The first words in this affectionate & careful ode to the most vulnerable parts of our hearts are “a feeling” & so are all the other words that follow.
Sarena Brown’s chapbook i am thankful for feeling & for the first time on earth is a tender exclamation, is a basket of lavender brought back from the garden of Sarena’s heart. It’s full of care for the mess of living & thinking & feeling & things & joy & the tactile & cookies & omg tink. It’s a reminder of abundance, and sweetness, and hotness, and silliness, and of how fruitful buttdials can be. It’s a practice of asking, of healing. And it’s an invitation! That I was so happy to receive!! Sarena is making their own clouds that look like dragons & Lil Nas X when there aren’t any in the sky: “My gay is weeping at the blue-glow of my Netflix queue, is not finding enough gay shit so I gotta do my own gay shit.” It’s really very good, and you will in all likelihood also smile a cheek hurting smile and hold your hand to your heart like I did when you read it.
–Andy Powell, My Heart Is A Public Park