{"title":"Gwen Aube","description":"Gwen Aube is a working-class writer living in Montreal, Quebec. Her work has appeared in The Gay \u0026amp; Lesbian Review, The New Orleans Review, Contemporary Verse 2, Expat Press, and Room Magazine. She is a 2025 Artist-in-Residence with the Ontario Heritage Council, a Kevin Killian scholarship recipient for the Jack Kerouac School Summer Writing Program, and was a finalist for the PEN Canada New Voices award. She is the author of the chapbook Pulp Necrosis (above\/ground press, 2025).","products":[{"product_id":"missed-connections-with-tall-girls-paperback","title":"Missed Connections with Tall Girls - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003etrain hopping\u003cbr\u003epill popping \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003efur wearing \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003esink pissing \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003etranny \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003epunk \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eodes!\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Gwen is my favourite kind of poet, the kind with clear eyes that truly see other humans.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--katherena vermette, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Break and Procession\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Will make you cackle so heinously your roommate asks what you are choking on.\"\u003c\/b\u003e --\u003ci\u003eSouth Broadway Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs heard on CBC \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn \u003ci\u003eAutostraddle\u003c\/i\u003e Most Anticipated Queer Book for April \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTweaking working-class colloquialisms into new forms of elegy and song, Gwen Aube's hilarious and uncompromising poems chronicle a precarious, debaucherous carnival of trailer-trash divas and Discord autistics, living and delighting in survival at the edges of technocapital. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike a digital-age Wanda Coleman, like a transsexual Kevin Killian, like Elizabeth Smart infused with Sybil Lamb, \u003ci\u003eMissed Connections with Tall Girls\u003c\/i\u003e establishes Aube as a brash and unstoppable singular voice for a monstrous new world.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378714345695,"sku":"9781964322971","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/MQvqaitvJy9781964322971.webp?v=1789261566"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/gwen-aube.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}