Colossus:Body

An anthology of poems and prose on the theme of bodily autonomy. All funds from book sales will be donated to Keep our Clinics.

Colossus knows that the body is really the Bodies: the body of knowledge, of evidence, of work, of oppression and repression, celebration and mourning. Colossus brings us a habeas corpus: a “Show me the body” of the heart, the thing that takes us through space and time, wrapped in skin.

- daphne gottlieb, author of Saint 1001, winner of the Acker Award for Excellence in the Avant-Garde, the Audre Lorde Award for Poetry, and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award.

When human rights come under attack, the Colossus anthologies run to their defense. A young but formidable press, Colossus assembles a wide range of dynamic writers to address a variety of hot button issues. Colossus: Body An Anthology On The Sovereignty Of The Self is the latest collection of scorching and beautiful poems focused on empathy, compassion and justice for the self. These poems address body autonomy, health, birth stories and identity. They are armed and dangerous and worth teaching, meditating on and crying with again and again.

- James Cagney, poet and author of MARTIAN: The Saint of Loneliness, winner of the 2021 James Laughlin award from Academy of American Poets.

Urgent, wrathful, vulnerable, and gorgeous, the pieces in Colossus:Body capture what it feels like to live in a body that has been locked down by laws you cannot control. Now, more than ever, we need this book. It is a protest and a balm. Long may its voices ring in your mind.

-Annalee Newitz, author of The Future of Another Timeline.