Landlock X

-Finalist in the 2023  Big Other  Book Award for Poetry Sarah Audsley’s debut poetry collection, Landlock X , joins a growing body of adoptee poetics. By examining the consequences of the international transracial adoptee experience—her own—Audsley’s collection finds more questions than solid answers. Employing a variety of poetic forms, co-opting the pastoral tradition to argue for belonging to the rural landscape—despite the inheritance of displacement and removal from a country of o