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Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still CommittingIn its five year anniversary edition, Topaz Winters Portrait of My Body as a Crime Im Still Committing returns with ten new poems, a revised body of work, & a foreword by bestselling author Blythe Baird. An examination of desire as religion, food as compulsion, & illness as a gut reflex in the face of girlhoods little violences, Portrait haunts the landscape of self mythology & cuts straight into its own marrow. This book is a howl in the night, a
In its five year anniversary edition, Topaz Winters’ Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing returns with ten new poems, a revised body of work, & a foreword by bestselling author Blythe Baird. An examination of desire as religion, food as compulsion, & illness as a gut reflex in the face of girlhood’s little violences, Portrait haunts the landscape of self-mythology & cuts straight into its own marrow. This book is a howl in the night, a fracture through the dark, as omnivorous & revelatory today as it was five years ago. “Must I say it to survive?” asks its speaker, balanced on the knife’s edge between confessional & manifesto. “Then I will."Awards
2018 Gaudy Boy Poetry Book Prize Finalist 2018 Broken River Prize FinalistPraise for Topaz Winters
Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing is urgent confession, kisses hungrier than prayer. Beneath the thirst is the threat of forgiveness and the darknesses that call your name. Here is the pleasure of burning alive. —Traci Brimhall, Our Lady of the Ruins
Crackling with the velocities, repetitions, and dangers of want–a voracious heat that seduces, even as it warns. Winters manifests the constructive and destructive energies of desire in language that sparks. —Gabrielle Bates, Judas Goat
Fingers become matchsticks, people become sunlight, and the body becomes punctuation in a collections of love poems that is as much mourning as it is blessing. —Zeina Hashem Beck, O
The voices in Portrait of My Body as a Crime I’m Still Committing confess dangerous desires. They’re unafraid to repeat the words lonely and want. I trust their warning: be careful what you worship. I needed this book, needed someone to say that some deaths have an end. –K. Iver, Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco
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★★★★★ 5
Good standard pony
Format: Hardcover
I recommend this book for scholars who want to read the original Greek but don't want the burden of translating. I like the small size of the book that can be toted around to the doctor's and on an airplane. There are enough notes on difficult passages to make the casual reader aware of the specialist's debate.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2014
★★★★★ 4
what most people want in a loeb library book
Format: Hardcover
The language and translation are fine. I was hoping for an unabridged version with nothing left out. Not so, I am pretty sure there is more that has been expurgated. I might be wrong
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Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2019
★★★★★ 5
Excellent reading
Format: Hardcover
If you're interested in reading Homer and want to see what it looks like in the original Greek, start here!
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Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2016
★★★★★ 5
Good
Format: Hardcover
Really liked it
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Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2019
★★★★★ 5
Fabulous!!!!!
Format: Paperback
Can’t recommend it enough!! A truly fantastic devotional!! Rich biblical truth!! Helps to center your mind on the real reason we celebrate Christmas! I will read it again next Christmas too! I also highly recommend his 365 day devotional called “New Mornings Mercies”!!
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Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2025