Bemis/Flaherty Collection of Gay Poetry

"In the follow-up to his Griffin Poetry Prize-winning collection, This Wound is a World, Billy-Ray Belcourt aims more of an anthropological eye at the contours of NDN and queer social worlds to spot the much that is left unsaid when we look only to the mainstream media. In this genre-bending work, Belcourt employs poetry, poetics, prose, and textual art to illuminate the rogue possibility bubbling up everywhere NDNs are. Part One examines the rhythms...

"The first half contains some of Bidart's most luminous and intimate work-poems about the art of writing, Eros, and the desolations and mirror of history (in a spectacular narrative based on Tacitus). The second half of the book exerts the overt lyricism of the opening section into even more ambitious territory-"The Second Hour of the Night" may be Bidart's most profound and complex meditation on the illusion of will, "--Amazon.com

The Passages of Joy draws it's title from Samuel Johnson's poem "The Vanity of Human Wishes": "Time hovered o'er, impatient to destroy/And shuts up all the Passages of Joy." The book ends with a poem about a modern cab driver on a night shift in San Francisco. In between is accomplished and disturbing verse, dealing in part with the union, or the coincidence, of the old and the new; the ordered and the anarchic; the contemplated and the spontaneous—Johnson...

"SLINGSHOT begins with the author ensconced in the menacing isolation of the pastoral, but once the work migrates to the City, monstrum grows form and fangs. In these messy, horny, desperate poems spun from dream logic, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson considers the consequences of black sexual and gender deviance, as well as the emotional burden of being forced to the rim of society, then punished for what keeps you alive."--

A collection of seventeen stories, poems, and excerpts from books about horses, by well-known authors over several centuries.

A novel on growing up black in America from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. The narrator describes his journey from the inner city in St. Louis to the Harvard law school. Along the way he reflects on race, intellect, class, the black family, and gay and straight sex. A first novel.