
bury it
Sam Sax(Author)
Wesleyan University Press
Published on 4. October 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-0-8195-7731-3 (ISBN)
Description
sam sax's bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, begins with poems written in response to the spate of highly publicized young gay suicides in the summer of 2010. What follows are raw and expertly crafted meditations on death, rituals of passage, translation, desire, diaspora, and personhood. What's at stake is survival itself and the archiving of a lived and lyric history. Laughlin Award judge Tyehimba Jess says "bury it is lit with imagery and purpose that surprises and jolts at every turn. Exuberant, wild, tightly knotted mesmerisms of discovery inhabit each poem in this seethe of hunger and sacred toll of toil. A vitalizing and necessary book of poems that dig hard and lift luminously." In this phenomenal second collection of poems, Sam Sax invites the reader to join him in his interrogation of the bridges we cross, the bridges we burn, and bridges we must leap from.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
178 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8195-7731-3 (9780819577313)
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Person
sam sax is a queer Jewish writer and educator currently living in Brooklyn. He's the author of Madness, winner of the National Poetry Series, and the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion.
Content
WILL R O P E BILDUNGSROMAN ULTRASOUND NEW GOD OF AN ANTIQUE WAR BUENA VISTA PARK 2AM PENTIMENTO STANDARDS ESSAY ON CRYING IN PUBLIC BURY D R A W MISSING PERSONS BRIDGES HYDROPHOBIA RISK MDMA MEAT SYNONYMS FOR RAW I WANT SO DESPERATELY TO BE FINISHED WITH DESIRE S T O N E KADDISH T O L L FIRST WILL & TESTAMENT SILENT AUCTION WEATHER UNDERGROUND DIASPORA WORRY TREYF ESTATE PLANNING CONTROLLED BURN IMPOSSIBLE DRAMA NAUBADE OBJECTOPHILE SURVEILLANCE BURY S U S P E N S I O N POLITICS OF ELEGY POEM ABOUT WATER IMPERMANENCE SERVICE I.35 BUTTHOLE BUTT PLUG APPLICATION PHONOMANIA: A HISTORY OF NOISE GAY BOYS & THE BRIDGES WHO LOVE THEM # WILL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS NOTES