Topaz Winters

Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing is an award-winning, omnivorous collection of poetry residing in the space between confessional & manifesto. Luminous, tender, & unflinching, Portrait cuts straight to the marrow. To all those whose bodies have been more bruise than human, this book is for you.

Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing

Heaven or This

Topaz Winters' third poetry collection spans three countries & three generations. In a far-reaching & deftly woven series of ars poeticas, Winters questions the boundary between the things we inherit & those we owe. Topaz arrives at the grave of the American dream, & unspools the enormous grace & guilt of being loved. So, Stranger stands as a fixed mark between the shifting histories & futures of being a daughter, being an artist, & being an immigrant. If its reader begins as a stranger, they end as part of a lineage: one both of grief & glory, of distance & arrival.

So, Stranger

Poems by Topaz Winters

Poems for the Sound of the Sky Before Thunder

Monsoon Dream

Courtney Felle

Gaia Rajan

Issue IX of Half Mystic Journal showcases the theme of synaesthesia: the blue undressing of voice-the song-scent wafting on wind-the tongues of memory and light.

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