knot body

Mixing verse, prose essays, and letters addressed to lovers, friends, and those who fall somewhere between, Eli Tareq Bechelany-Lynch turns a sharp eye on how systems shape the lives of people living with chronic pain, illness, and disability. Capitalism, fatphobia, ableism, the experience of being trans, and racism all run through these pages as forces that press on bodies.

The book follows the author's own encounters with the edges of the body, the moments when a person learns what it can no longer do. Those limits become a way of looking outward, asking what they expose about the society that defines who is productive, desirable, or deserving of care.