Learned

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Set in the 90s, alternating between the storied quads of Oxford University and the dank recesses of London pubs given over to public displays of queer BDSM, Learned chronicles poet and Rhodes Scholar Carellin Brooks’ extreme explorations of mind and body. In these poems, the speaker trembles on the verge of discovery, pushing her physical limits through practices of pain, permission, and pleasure. But her inability to negotiate the unspoken elite codes of Oxford begs the question: how to unlearn a legacy of family dissolution and abuse? Bold, nuanced, and ultimately triumphant Learned chronicles an intimate education in flesh, desire, and bodily memory.

Carellin Brooks is the author of One Hundred Days of Rain, which won the 2016 ReLit Award for Fiction and the 2016 Edmund White Award for Debut LGBT+ Fiction, and was published in French by Les Allusifs. She is also the author of Fresh Hell, Every Inch a Woman, and Wreck Beach. Brooks lives in Vancouver and is a lecturer at the University of British Columbia.

Learned is a "novel in verse" about a Rhodes Scholar who moves to England to study at Oxford but learns just as much through underground BDSM clubs bringing into question the way that education is both packaged and received.
Why to buy: Elite academic life at Oxford by day is juxtaposed with London's queer club community by night in this novel-in-verse by award-winning LGBTQ author Carellin Brooks.
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• Rhodes Scholar and queer writer Carellin Brooks contrasts the buttoned-up regimens of academia with the education she receives in London's queer underground sex club scene
• Highly narrative, novel-in-verse structure
• Author's previous novel One Hundred Days of Rain won the Edmund White Award for Debut LGBT+ Fiction and the ReLit Award for Fiction National print and online campaign
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Dimensions	1 × 5 × 8 in