Yoni Provenance

Content Warning

This is a collection about reclaiming the body and the self after surviving incest, rape, and marital rape. Some of the work mentions incest, rape, marital rape, self-harm, and other potentially triggering topics. Please take care of yourself as you witness these important stories. Take breaks if you need them. You are not alone.

Advance Praise for Yoni Provenance

I read Yoni Provenance from inside a six-sided corner of trauma, and my greatest hope for the book was that I would feel moved by the potency of her language. I hoped maybe I would feel a little seen in my corner, as I knew this book was birthed in part by trauma. "But all birth is painful," the poet remarks in Response to "What Do You Surrender To?" And so, as I read, poem-by-poem, line-by-line, word-by-word, and breath-by-breath, I realized this book was birthed by bravery, by a woman not only uncaging herself from the prison of pain, but staying in the prison corridors long enough to hand us the keys to our six-sided cages, a sacred offering only those who know suffering can give.

--Neha Sampat, Founder of Belong Lab