Among the Leaves: Queer Male Poets on the Midwestern Experience

by Raymond Luczak

Overview

In Among the Leaves, 18 queer male poets share stories what it means to live in the Midwest. We learn what it’s like for them to play football and come up short. We feel their lingering effects of bullying. We experience the undeniable power of seasons affecting their moods as they ache for a meaningful connection. We learn what it means to celebrate in spite of the odds against them. But more than anything, we discover anew through their poems the redemptive power of love and renewal among the leaves growing and falling.

“The poetry in Among the Leaves crackles to life across plains both arid and wintry, from first crushes on grain-fed jock boys to fathers brandishing Bibles, guns, and catcher’s mitts. The Midwest is brought into sharp focus by a group of top-notch poets unafraid to explode the myth of the American heartland and expose the gritty, hard-scrabble realities of growing up gay there. I can’t remember an anthology so full of varied voices and styles that so deftly defines a region.” — Collin Kelley, author of Render and Slow to Burn

Product Details

BN ID:	2940044981102
Publisher:	Handtype Press
Publication date:	10/07/2012
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	538 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Raymond Luczak is the author and editor of 15 books, including HOW TO KILL POETRY (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013) and AMONG THE LEAVES: QUEER MALE POETS ON THE MIDWESTERN EXPERIENCE (Squares & Rebels, 2012). He also is the editor of JONATHAN, a journal featuring gay men's fiction. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.