\"When her body was removed from its tomb, the people of the region said the forests started to burn, the earth began to shake, the winds would not stop blowing, and the living began to want to die. I am not surprised that the dead woman made the forests burn.\"
Slalomé.e reading The dead woman by Anne Boyer.
Anne Boyer is a poet and essayist whose work explores the possibilities of literature as an instrument for thinking about experiences often excluded from literature, particularly those that gather around gender, class, labor, and illness.
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