{"product_id":"les-portes-paperback","title":"Les Portes - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMeredith Nnoka\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eErica Meiners\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2025 CAAPP Book Prize, selected by Cameron Awkward-Rich, and named a \"Best Poetry of 2025 and 2026\" by \u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLes Portes\u003c\/i\u003e traces how harm against women and femmes takes root, recurs, and reshapes itself across generations. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnfolding in three movements--Le Début, Le Passé, and Le Présent--all of which rupture conventional domestic abuse narratives, and drawing heavily from zuihitsu, ekphrasis, erasure, and found forms to mirror the fractured experience of living through and after harm, these poems serve as radical meditations on the power to reflect as resistance. A queer woman caught in an abusive marriage begins to reimagine justice not as punishment but as something restorative, collective, and deeply non-carceral. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her debut book, Nnoka poses the question that propels the collection: \"Where is the path forward \/ that ensures no recurrence?\" Rather than gesture toward resolution, Les Portes dwells inside this question, and what emerges is not consolation but an immense reckoning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMeredith Nnoka \u003c\/b\u003eis a Chicago-based poet, teacher, and prison abolitionist. She is the author of the chapbooks\u003ci\u003e I Could Never Be Your Woman\u003c\/i\u003e (O, Miami, 2023) and \u003ci\u003eA Hunger Called Music: A Verse History of Black Music\u003c\/i\u003e (C\u0026amp;R Press, 2016). Nnoka holds a BA from Smith College and an MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, both in Africana studies. She teaches poetry in carceral facilities and has received fellowships from Illinois Humanities, Lambda Literary, and the Prison + Neighborhood Arts\/Education Project. Twice nominated for Best of the Net, her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eDiode Poetry Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFour Way Review, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Massachusetts Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 110\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.6 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 28, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53468513042739,"sku":"9781637681206","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/UG0lN5AqIg9781637681206.webp?v=1781167931","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/les-portes-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}