Venus Limbs

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About Venus Limbs

Venus Limbs is a surreal exploration of how the medical industry treats fatness, chronic illness, and intersex conditions. The narrative is told through the point of view of the Venus of Willendorf statue. A brave debut chapbook.

"Venus spills ambrosia like wine and like blood

pink and meaty, the Agent goes we laugh

not out of cruelty, we are not swans

anymore, we are bees all bees,

homing to the queen"

The Blooming Series

The 2025 goal for TW is the nourishing of our roots: hand-bound chapbooks. With our new, runic colophon as a compass, we wish to embrace the natural world, channel the sublime beauty of classical art, develop three debut poets into world-class authors, and craft the most artisanal chapbooks in our catalog. This is The Blooming Series.

38 pgs, 5.0” x 7.0”

Cover design by Josh Dale

Edited by Maryam Qureshi

Jacket Artwork: Death of Lucretia (c. 1550), a painting by Bartholomeus Spranger

Released on 5-9-25

For international orders greater than 2 units: please email us before ordering so we can calculate shipping, thanks!

Edition Information

Standard edition comes in a crisp, perfect-bound glue binding. For bookshelves.

Budget edition comes in a hand-folded, saddle-stitch staple binding. For trading.

Limited edition comes in a nuanced, hemp cord binding of 20 copies. For special collections.

About Venus Limbs

Venus Limbs is a surreal exploration of how the medical industry treats fatness, chronic illness, and intersex conditions. The narrative is told through the point of view of the Venus of Willendorf statue. A brave debut chapbook.

"Venus spills ambrosia like wine and like blood

pink and meaty, the Agent goes we laugh

not out of cruelty, we are not swans

anymore, we are bees all bees,

homing to the queen"

The Blooming Series

The 2025 goal for TW is the nourishing of our roots: hand-bound chapbooks. With our new, runic colophon as a compass, we wish to embrace the natural world, channel the sublime beauty of classical art, develop three debut poets into world-class authors, and craft the most artisanal chapbooks in our catalog. This is The Blooming Series.

38 pgs, 5.0” x 7.0”

Cover design by Josh Dale

Edited by Maryam Qureshi

Jacket Artwork: Death of Lucretia (c. 1550), a painting by Bartholomeus Spranger

Released on 5-9-25

For international orders greater than 2 units: please email us before ordering so we can calculate shipping, thanks!

Edition Information

Standard edition comes in a crisp, perfect-bound glue binding. For bookshelves.

Budget edition comes in a hand-folded, saddle-stitch staple binding. For trading.

Limited edition comes in a nuanced, hemp cord binding of 20 copies. For special collections.

About the Author

Author photo by the author

Jie Cohen is a mixed, intersex writer whose work has been recognized in or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM, The Offing, The Minnesota Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Strange Horizons, The Ex-Puritan, POETS.org, and others. Their poem "THE FUTURE" received a Best of the Net award in 2023, their poem "fairy-cherry" was selected as the winner of the 2024 Singapore Unbound Poetry Prize, and they were longlisted for The Disquiet Prize in Poetry in 2025. They currently live and teach in Central Asia.

Reviews

“In their stunning debut chapbook, Jie Cohen breathes life into the Venus of Willendorf and shifts between the first- and third-person narrative—a move that mythologizes the self. Cohen offers a counter-gaze to the patriarchal structures that seek to contain and erase fat and femme bodies. Reclaimed, the body transcends these structures and becomes an altar of worship, creation, and vengeance, “blossom[ing] with bruises.”

—Jeddie Sophronius, author of Interrogation Records