| Description |
87 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Wesleyan poetry |
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Wesleyan poetry.
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| Contents |
Will -- ROPE. Bildungsroman -- Ultrasound -- New God of an Antique War -- Buena Vista Park 2AM -- Pentimento -- Standards -- Essay on Crying in Public -- Bury -- DRAW. Missing Persons -- Bridges -- Hydrophobia -- Risk -- MDMA -- Meat -- Synonyms For Raw -- I Want So Desperately to Be Finished with Desire -- STONE. Kaddish -- TOLL. First Will & Testament -- Silent Auction -- Weather Underground -- Diaspora -- Worry -- Treyf -- Estate Planning -- Controlled Burn -- Impossible Drama -- Naubade -- Objectophile -- Surveillance -- SUSPENSION. Politics of Elegy -- Poem about Water -- Impermanence -- Service -- I.35 -- Butthole -- Butt Plug -- Application -- Phonomania: A History of Noise -- Gay Boys & the Bridges Who Love Them -- Will. |
| Summary |
Sam Sax's bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, begins with poems written in response to the spate of highly publicized young gay suicides in the summer of 2010. What follows are raw and expertly crafted meditations on death, rituals of passage, translation, desire, diaspora, and personhood. What's at stake is survival itself and the archiving of a lived and lyric history. Laughlin Award judge Tyehimba Jess says "bury it is lit with imagery and purpose that surprises and jolts at every turn. Exuberant, wild, tightly knotted mesmerisms of discovery inhabit each poem in this seethe of hunger and sacred toll of toil. A vitalizing and necessary book of poems that dig hard and lift luminously." In this phenomenal second collection of poems, Sam Sax invites the reader to join him in his interrogation of the bridges we cross, the bridges we burn, and bridges we must leap from. |
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Winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. |
| Awards |
James Laughlin Award, 2017 |
| Subject |
Gay people's writings -- Poetry.
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Suicide -- Poetry.
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Gays' writings. (OCoLC)fst00939312
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Suicide. (OCoLC)fst01137578
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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| Added Author |
Bemis/Flaherty Collection of Gay Poetry. WU
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Sax, Sam, 1986- Bury it. Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, 2018 9780819577320 (DLC) 2018012530 |
| ISBN |
9780819577313 paperback |
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0819577316 paperback |
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