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In its five year anniversary edition, Topaz Winters Portrait of My Body as a Crime I m Still Committing returns with ten new poems, a revised body of work, & a foreword by bestselling author Blythe Baird. An examination of desire as religion, food as compulsion, & illness as a gut reflex in the face of girlhood s little violences, Portrait haunts the landscape of self-mythology & cuts straight into its own marrow. This book is a howl in the night, a fracture through the dark, as omnivorous & revelatory today as it was five years ago. Must I say it to survive? asks its speaker, balanced on the knife s edge between confessional & manifesto. Then I will.