Description
Wray's poems are wry luxury items of intelligence, sheathed in the latent double of speech, where a word like family might mean, in the queer parlance, refuge, but also, refutation. This is an interrogative, primal, mythic collection, a poetry of privacy and disclosure, of contradiction, a disabused landscape under 'razor-wire stars.'--Randall Mann
NO DOUBT I WILL RETURN A DIFFERENT MAN explores how complicated relationships between fathers and sons cast long shadows over the future self. In Wray's poems, eros shades at times uncomfortably into social violence and self-abnegation, making this book both love song and elegy to masculinity and its performances, to queerness, and to self-invention. Wray's sharp-eared lyrics move between the darkly campy and the sublime, proving that paternal elegies themselves are 'queer things' whose shifting modes allow him to investigate the limits of fatherhood itself.--Paisley Rekdal
Situated in the long posterity of one of the most infamously shattered queer lives, this tense excavation of Alan Turing, this careful and sumptuous overlay of men's secrecies and assignations seventy years apart, is fascinating. NO DOUBT I WILL RETURN A DIFFERENT MAN delves for origins, stirs encryption with erotics, and makes 'caught looking' palpable in its thrill and thrall.--Brian Blanchfield
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies.
Author: Tobias Wray
Publisher: Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Published: 10/05/2021
Pages: 76
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.80w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9781734816716
ISBN10: 1734816716
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | LGBTQ+
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