Co/notations
CO/NOTATIONS, by Sarah Cavar, embodies a pair of trans(genre) lyric essays published in 2018 with The Offing and 2020 with the since-fallen 3:am Magazine, respectively.
Praise:
“In CO/NOTATIONS, Cavar offers up ‘frag/mince’ of an intimate reflection on transreality and trans existence. In a delicate yet powerful concert of poetic and didactic movements, Cavar machetes identity norms, constructions, and objectifications to reveal the limitless complexities and continuums of the human body. ‘The body begins as forest,’ Cavar writes. This work takes us on a journey through the en/trails, entangled limbs, and dense thicket of selves selving, selves salving, always evolving, always undone.”
—Kate Siklosi, Author of Selvage.
bugbutter
Conjuring an ecosystem of Madness, music, memory, bugbutter explores bodies on the edge. In these hybrid poems, the human and the more-than-human mingle in sites of trauma and hope, with fantastical characters from Moomin to Catdog guiding the way. With bugbutter, Cali-based Cavar writes a modern myth of transMad childhood, and pulls poetry from its thickest hurts and tenderest absences. Out August 2022 from Gap Riot Press.
Out of Mind & Into Body
Out of Mind & Into Body is a transMad engagement with medico-psychiatric violence, epistemic erasure, and Mad survival amidst the intolerable –– getting on and not getting better. Out March 2022 from Ethel Press.
Praise:
"The ghost of Foucault hovers in the corner of these poems, which defy their own discipline as they reach toward something more. Sarah Cavar’s aching meditation on the challenges of inhabiting a body is also a stirring and serious account of what it means to be a patient, and to patiently await -- no, to demand -- a 'getting better' that goes beyond the body and the self."
-Megan Milks, author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body and Slug and Other Stories.
A Hole Walked In
A Hole Walked In is a thrilling piece of surrealist-gothic-body-horror short fiction, featuring a protagonist whose face just won’t stop bleeding. Following writers like Carmen Maria Machado and Helen Oyeyemi, A Hole Walked In traverses the feminist Weird and leaves a red trail in its wake.