I’ve enjoyed these books. (Want to tell me about your book? Please do.)
Dale Stromberg’s Melancholic Parables (2022)
“Stromberg gifts us a soft-spoken superhero with an all-in-one metaphysical toolbox. Bellatrix, like a Dirk Gently of reincarnation, navigates the ordinary in an extraordinary way. Encounters with to be and not to be: vulnerable yet ungovernable, tragicomic and ignormal. Shimmering reinvention. She already knows, and so will you.” — Tucker Lieberman
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Bryan Cebulski’s It Helps with the Blues (tRaum, 2022)
“Full-bodied immersion in teenage conversation about friendship, desire, and aspiration…Cebulski weaves a frank and tender gay story.” — Tucker Lieberman
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Julián Esteban Torres López’s Ninety-Two Surgically Enhanced Mannequins (re-released 2021)
“Torres López has recorded his meditations, at turns funny and thought-provoking, that lift like ‘the exoskeleton of a butterfly / trying to find its way home.” — Tucker Lieberman
Joseph Sigurdson’s No Sand (Thirty West Press, 2019)
“Sigurdson scours a history of loneliness, flagging the broken points for us to consume. “Time doesn’t act right on a bender” (“Outpatient”), he concludes. These impressionistic tales remain bright even as “[t]he liquor is beginning to yell at me” (“Kneeling”). If readers have never been left trembling, embarrassed, sore, exhausted by alcohol, Sigurdson nevertheless generously leads us through parts of that experience. In No Sand, he illuminates the contours of that particularly rough road, that labyrinthine path in which he seems to fight his own desire for connection and comfort.” — Tucker Lieberman
Anatomy of Desire (2018), ed. Shekinah Vera-Cruz print | eBook
“Desire can be a fast-burning flame. In these poems, it is so much more: a wrestling match with grief, a lifelong bond with family, a fear, a humiliation, a question, a reverence, a revolution.” — Tucker Lieberman
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