Boyish : poems /
"Boyish engages what once thought impossible: a reconciliation of southern and queer identities, of upbringing, rebellion, and revival. The coming to Jesus moments of looking back, of liberation & reckoning. Each page exterior & interior revolutions. To carve space between. To cut-up th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
Omnidawn,
2021.
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| Summary: | "Boyish engages what once thought impossible: a reconciliation of southern and queer identities, of upbringing, rebellion, and revival. The coming to Jesus moments of looking back, of liberation & reckoning. Each page exterior & interior revolutions. To carve space between. To cut-up the absence. To find oneself carried over graveled creekside into the first mouth's babble. As much subconscious as embodied desire, change holds within the white space and the formal play-language twisting the unspeakable alongside dense sonnets, a thicket of warmth & dissonance that holds a mirror up to puddled overpass & river. The landscapes of city's dystopia meeting the queer pastoral, where conservation often means what must burn down"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 41 pages ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781632430922 1632430924 |