Chouteau's Chalk

In Chouteaus Chalk, Rosa Lanes poems take a deep dive into the emotional and the erotic. Gender bent, her poems reside amid a tomboys emerging sexual identity within a world confined by heterosexual construction and its persistent mores. Her collection piques a countermythos that unfolds within a small fishing village opening a forbidden and hidden world with sensorial intensity and lyrical momentum. An epigraph from Audre Lordes notable work The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power hovers over every poem from birth through marriage, traversing calamities and holograms of desire, giving the I permission to assume full agency with power and dignity in a manner that is as acute as revelatory.