Böcker av Brian Teare

"Collaged from journals and notebooks kept during a period of chronic illness, economic precarity, and heartbreak, Poem Bitten by a Man captures crisis by cutting up the record of a queer life lived in devotion to poetry and visual art"--

*This timely reissue of an essential text on chronic illness, includes a new wide-ranging conversation with disability poetics scholar Declan Gould begun 2016. Focusing on the intersections of experimental poetics and the experiences of illness and invisible disability, Gould instigates a dialogue that situates the formal, thematic, and narrative concerns of The Empty Form in the broader context of what she calls a disability poetry of "radical accessibility." *After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eights years in Philadelphia, he is now an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville. *Authors other book, Doomstead Days was Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry. *Author is former Pew Fellow in the Arts, and the recipient of poetry fellowships from the NEA, the MacDowell Colony, the American Antiquarian Society, the Fund for Poetry, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Headlands Center for the Arts.

What does it mean to dwell in a place? These adventurous poems go on foot in search of answers.

A sumptuous lyric exploration of the pain & pleasure of embodiment amidst what feels like end times.

An architecture equally poetry, fairy tale, autobiography and fiction, ""The Room Where I Was Born"" rebuilds the house of the lyric from fragments salvaged from experience and literature. Though the poems are born out of violence and sexuality, they also affirm tenderness and compassion.