Wound From the Mouth of a Wound (2020) and Deed (2024) / torrin a greathouse

Wound From the Mouth of a Wound (2020) and Deed (2024 / torrin a greathouse

I’ve been a longtime fan of torrin a greathouse’s work from afar and this year I finally buckled and bought both her books. Both are great. Wound from the Mouth of a Wound has a fiery, hurt first book energy, complete with a coming-of-age arc. Deed explores the erotic and the sexual, the places where they overlap and do not. I preferred WFTMOAW a little more to Deed as there seemed to be a bit more at stake in the writing. Through Deed, I discovered the Dog Park Dissidents, a queer punk group that narrowly didn’t make the cut for my top ten albums of 2025. Deed also had great response poems to transphobic works by Sharon Olds and Adrienne Riche. I give WFTMOAW 4.5/5 and Deed 4 out of 5.