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With Phoenix Song, Green establishes themself once again as a fiery truth-teller, a writer not afraid to taste the pomegranate or to stare directly into the portrait lens before the shutter clicks. This is a journey to the center of the soul. I wanted to carry this book against my chest like a nametag, like a shield. I look forward to more and more of Green's work in the future.
Meg Elison
author of Big Girl and The Road to Nowhere Series
More praise for Phoenix Song
To encounter LD Green’s Phoenix Song is to experience the complex & layered anomalies, truths, & joys of identity, gender, & radical self-advocacy. With their gentle laughter & no-bullshit demeanor, here is a protagonist we can trust. We shape-shift & coalesce along with the book’s hybrid structure & lyric, becoming in dance with its spectral hues until finally, we emerge - clean as light.
--Melissa Eleftherion Carr, Poet Laureate of Ukiah and author, field guide to autobiography
Lose yourself in this delightfully queer volume, oozing with subversion, kaleidoscopic truth, and shimmering unicorn energy. Here around the sparkling, flickering rainbow fire LD Green has created, you will find yourself staring into the healing flames, and you’ll know that you’re not alone. Whether exploring radical mental health, the complex spectrum of trans identity, the lingering effects of trauma, or the liberation of bi experience, Green’s prose and poetry made me feel seen and honored in a way I have not experienced for a long time in the pages of a book. Phoenix Song is not just a chapbook; it is a soothing balm in words, centering and elevating the lived experiences of those who have all too often found themselves at the margins.
—L. Harris, writer, facilitator, and mental health advocate
A beautiful, poignant, and resilient collection of poetry and prose exploring the intersections of gender, sexuality, mental health, and being embodied.
--Julia Serano, author of Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity and Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive
LD Green whispers healing tears into their Phoenix Song. (A) reclamation of dangerous gifts, and a fantastical reckoning with identity. Unapologetic, non-binary, and quippy, Green takes the reader on a journey of melodic freedom and revelations that scorch untruths about gender, sexuality, mental health, and love. This rebirth is tender, bold, funny and heart touching. A true gift from a writer who shares, 'my nature is to burn.' "
-- Kelechi Ubozoh, Co-Editor of We've Been Too Patient
To encounter LD Green’s Phoenix Song is to experience the complex & layered anomalies, truths, & joys of identity, gender, & radical self-advocacy. With their gentle laughter & no-bullshit demeanor, here is a protagonist we can trust. We shape-shift & coalesce along with the book’s hybrid structure & lyric, becoming in dance with its spectral hues until finally, we emerge - clean as light.
--Melissa Eleftherion Carr, Poet Laureate of Ukiah and author, field guide to autobiography
Lose yourself in this delightfully queer volume, oozing with subversion, kaleidoscopic truth, and shimmering unicorn energy. Here around the sparkling, flickering rainbow fire LD Green has created, you will find yourself staring into the healing flames, and you’ll know that you’re not alone. Whether exploring radical mental health, the complex spectrum of trans identity, the lingering effects of trauma, or the liberation of bi experience, Green’s prose and poetry made me feel seen and honored in a way I have not experienced for a long time in the pages of a book. Phoenix Song is not just a chapbook; it is a soothing balm in words, centering and elevating the lived experiences of those who have all too often found themselves at the margins.
—L. Harris, writer, facilitator, and mental health advocate
A beautiful, poignant, and resilient collection of poetry and prose exploring the intersections of gender, sexuality, mental health, and being embodied.
--Julia Serano, author of Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity and Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive
LD Green whispers healing tears into their Phoenix Song. (A) reclamation of dangerous gifts, and a fantastical reckoning with identity. Unapologetic, non-binary, and quippy, Green takes the reader on a journey of melodic freedom and revelations that scorch untruths about gender, sexuality, mental health, and love. This rebirth is tender, bold, funny and heart touching. A true gift from a writer who shares, 'my nature is to burn.' "
-- Kelechi Ubozoh, Co-Editor of We've Been Too Patient
