Poet and memoirist Hillary Leftwich’s most recent book, a genre-defiant work titled Saint Dymphna’s Playbook, is a devastating study in modalities of erasure. The book interrogates the almost unfathomably brutal erasure of female/femme voices and identities, as acts of deletion and blotting-out permeate the work via form and content. Resultingly, Saint Dymphna’s Playbook is both…

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