in a dark movie theatre, a body is almost
anonymous. more so if it’s one of the auditoriums
with recliners, where a body is less likely
to touch another body.
- transmasc marvel girl (sonnet)
In this follow up to 2023’s Heaven, Ekphrasis, Arcadia takes us back to the movies and reflects on the joy in a one off, and the beauty of a sequel that upends the plot. These are poems for back rows and back roads; poems of long contemplations on longer drives home. Confessional and unconcerned with propriety, Transmasc Marvel Girl threads tape through the projector, dims the lights, flips the lamp, and unzips its fly as the image resolves.
Advance Praise for Transmasc Marvel Girl:
Bracingly honest, frank but soft, and bathed in the reflected light of a movie theatre screen…this work encapsulates the transgender experience.”
- nat raum, author of with gasoline & journal of various worries
Release Date: April 23, 2026
48 pages
in a dark movie theatre, a body is almost
anonymous. more so if it’s one of the auditoriums
with recliners, where a body is less likely
to touch another body.
- transmasc marvel girl (sonnet)
In this follow up to 2023’s Heaven, Ekphrasis, Arcadia takes us back to the movies and reflects on the joy in a one off, and the beauty of a sequel that upends the plot. These are poems for back rows and back roads; poems of long contemplations on longer drives home. Confessional and unconcerned with propriety, Transmasc Marvel Girl threads tape through the projector, dims the lights, flips the lamp, and unzips its fly as the image resolves.
Advance Praise for Transmasc Marvel Girl:
Bracingly honest, frank but soft, and bathed in the reflected light of a movie theatre screen…this work encapsulates the transgender experience.”
- nat raum, author of with gasoline & journal of various worries
Release Date: April 23, 2026
48 pages
