Nothing Is Okay

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But they say I will not make it -- Rejection #1 -- Mixed girl -- My whiteness hits on me in a bar -- The art of riding a tandem bike alone -- In the event the wind is knocked out of you -- Cooking with tears -- Femme visibility -- Notes on depression -- A plague of doubts -- How to eat your feelings: anger -- Glory in two parts -- Halloween shopping with my niece -- Grief --An incomplete Pinterest board of uses for the abundance of condoms that expired after he left -- Horoscope for the premature Scorpio: March 2013 -- Incantation for autonomy -- Fat joke -- Potential slogans for okCupid -- Rejection #2 -- Joy buzzer -- Prime cuts -- My sugar, my sweet -- A green book for my niece -- Promissory -- First impressions -- How to eat your feelings: self doubt -- Something after borrowed -- Peace offerings for the girl with her back pressed against the door -- Big women -- The opposite of up -- Horoscope for the premature Scorpio: July 2014 -- Havisham -- I spent years not wearing red ... -- Letter to my cat exploring my impending spinsterhood -- What is left? -- A litany on breathing -- For my Grandpa on his 76th birthday -- The body song -- No one's -- When we were kings, one day -- How to eat your feelings: loneliness -- Form letter to my exes ... -- Expect-cum patronus -- Dry cake wishes and tap water dreams -- Rejection #3 -- Joyce Carol Vincent: illusionist -- Sleeping giants -- Spoilage -- How to eat your feelings: anxiety -- Solidarity with Miss Colombia 2015 -- Settle -- They bolt the headboards to the walls these days -- A response to the men of OkCupid adamant about showing me their cocks -- Paradise -- Ode to all the mothers I borrowed -- Waiting for the end of the world -- For fat girls who considered starvation when bulimia wasn't enough -- The leaving -- How my feminism learned to talk -- Belly kisses -- Burying my husband.;Nothing is Okay is the second full-length poetry collection by Rachel Wiley, whose work simultaneously deconstructs the lies that we were taught about our bodies and our beings, and builds new ways of viewing ourselves. As she delves into queerness, feminism, fatness, dating, and race, Wiley molds these topics into a punching critique of culture and a celebration of self. A fat positive activist, Wiley's work soars and challenges the bounds of bodies and hearts, and the ways we carry them.