Eighty Two by Talia Randall Lesbian The route to some kind

The route to some kind of acceptance and belonging may be troubled by ‘trying to escape’ but it also ‘holds | more light than your eye | will ever know’

can we get off the script and see clearly

— Aditi Machado

— Sara Baume

author of Lances All Alike and Parlance

Eighty Two by Talia Randall Lesbian The route to some kindeighty two is a collection length sequence of poetry spanning the life of a woman from 1984 to 2065. Each poem in the sequence offers a snapshot of one year. eighty two explores themes of environmental disaster, the body, alienation, and precarity. Talia Randalls poems present a slanted view of world events both real and imagined through the prism of strange, tender and intimate fragments of one womans life. Above all, eighty two is an attempt to re