Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing is urgent confession
while a human hand reaches for another
[They are] a far artist who forever changes those who experience [their] poems
And always and inexorably
rich with the kind of up-close intimacy that covers such wide ground — parentage
Nothing Is Okay William Evans Portrait of My Body asRachel Wiley, 2018. 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