Gephyromania

Gephyromania takes its title from a word meaning an addiction to, or obsession with, bridges. It is the debut poetry collection of T. C. Tolbert, a trans poet, activist, and teacher, and this edition is a new printing of that original work.

The poems refuse to choose between female and male, between a lover and the self, or between loss and relief. Instead, they stay in the places where those opposites meet. The book asks whether a bridge is nothing more than an effort to connect a body back to itself.

The collection draws parallels between a lover who leaves and a female body that chooses to recede. Moving through the gaps, the crossings, and the interiors of bodies, the poems examine the spaces that lie between people, among them, across them, and even within them.