"Tracy Dimond's poems come from the place where 'it girl' and riot grrrl meet. They are smart, introspective, funny, and unsettling all at once-both wry observations and wails into the mic from a brilliant feminist voice that takes poetry, pop culture, and affect as seriously as they deserve to be taken." - Dr. Tonee Mae Moll, author of You Cannot Save Here and Out of Step: A Memoir, winner of a Lambda Literary Award and the Non/Fiction Collection Prize
"It's the sarcastic micro-feminisms and anti-capitalist jabs for me. While reading Emotion Industry, I kind of feel like life is work. Except I'm with my favorite co-worker who is edging me to flee - to see beyond the billboards, find a wildflower to sponsor me, the sun of my expanse. There is a level of calm captured in the absolute of suffering, where a recovering animal discovers its cage. I imagine that world would be as precise as the voice in this one. Somehow, Tracy captures the immeasurable heartbreak in apathy and lands it in our body. - Amanda McCormick, Creator of THE HOUSE Handcrafted
"Tracy Dimond takes the reader on a journey through living with undiagnosed illness while trying to survive the world in a woman's body-"so bent over from this leaning in." She hints at the discomfort she feels in her own skin: "thinking about the body- / the reign of terror over every moment captured in / store mirrors" but reminds us "the privilege of / a bag of muscles and bones and fat / with a voice box." Emotion Industry is filled with sharp images and a dry wit that sticks with the reader. Sagely, Dimond tells us, "Aging is deciding which system to buy into, / but I'm still searching for shooting stars." This collection is a shooting star and the one I'm buying into." - CourtneyLeBlanc, author of Her Whole Bright Life, winner of the Jack McCarthyBook Prize
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