Another Man
Will be published approx. on 10. November 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-0-299-36014-6 (ISBN)
Description
Part reckoning with a father's chronic illness, part coming of age in the Upper South, part meditation on the slow, painful accumulation of adulthood, Another Man considers issues of family, care, and inheritance. These powerful poems capture unexpected moments of lucidity among the desire and heartbreak of becoming oneself.
In his debut collection, Jim Whiteside astonishes with turns of phrases that pinpoint the beauty in the mundane-the "waterfalling bodies" of fish while stocking a pond-and the mundane in the tragic, as in the realization after his father's death that "in the end so much is paperwork."
In revealing his origin story, the poet redefines the queer poem in a more nuanced and contemporary way, acknowledging queer life beyond conventional narratives. Filled with a zeal for life, a yearning for joy, and moments of sublime satisfaction, this collection shimmers with longing and freedom: "So many things our parents never mentioned, / so we gave ourselves permission."
In his debut collection, Jim Whiteside astonishes with turns of phrases that pinpoint the beauty in the mundane-the "waterfalling bodies" of fish while stocking a pond-and the mundane in the tragic, as in the realization after his father's death that "in the end so much is paperwork."
In revealing his origin story, the poet redefines the queer poem in a more nuanced and contemporary way, acknowledging queer life beyond conventional narratives. Filled with a zeal for life, a yearning for joy, and moments of sublime satisfaction, this collection shimmers with longing and freedom: "So many things our parents never mentioned, / so we gave ourselves permission."
Reviews / Votes
"A piercing and formally intelligent collection, Another Man weaves narrative urgency with lyric pressure to create a charged extended meditation on what it means to be confronted with death and absence and still find life. The poems thrum with intensity and the precision of a brilliant mind, aware." - Airea D. Matthews, judge, Felix Pollak Prize in PoetryMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Wisconsin
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
0 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-299-36014-6 (9780299360146)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Jim Whiteside is the author of the chapbook Writing Your Name on the Glass. The recipient of scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers' conferences and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry from Stanford University, he has published poems in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The American Poetry Review, POETRY, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review. Originally from Cookeville, Tennessee, he teaches creative writing at Sewanee: The University of the South.
Content
Clock with Reverse Gears
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Arkansas Nuclear One
Stocking the Pond
Neighbors
Killing Birds with Stones
Eighth Grade
Aunt Crane Hums Lee Ann Womack While Working at the Super D Drug Store
Sestina
Ice Storm, 1996
Commerce
Morning Meditation
Vessel
High School Punk Show
Rock Fest
Mosh Pit Ode
Aunt Crane Works for the Hot Air Balloon Company near Tucson, Arizona
Furtive Monologue
Tennessee Meditation
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The summer my father was a cowboy
Last Month
Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
Inventory
Do Not
Inventory
My Father Tells Me He Would Choose to Die
Oracle
Parable
Inventory
Stinging Tide
Bureaucracies
Final Lesson on Love from My Mother and Father
Shovel
Last Poem with My Father in It
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Reckoning
Morning Meditation
Theory of Destiny
Theory of the Days and Nights
Theory of Power
Theory of Revealing
Parable
Open
Take My Bones Away
Parable
To You in Georgia from Me in North Carolina
Judith Mountains
Sol Invictus
Poem on the Transbay Tube
Blueprints for Future Homes
Argeles-sur-Mer
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Before the Elegies
Acknowledgments
Notes
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Arkansas Nuclear One
Stocking the Pond
Neighbors
Killing Birds with Stones
Eighth Grade
Aunt Crane Hums Lee Ann Womack While Working at the Super D Drug Store
Sestina
Ice Storm, 1996
Commerce
Morning Meditation
Vessel
High School Punk Show
Rock Fest
Mosh Pit Ode
Aunt Crane Works for the Hot Air Balloon Company near Tucson, Arizona
Furtive Monologue
Tennessee Meditation
***
The summer my father was a cowboy
Last Month
Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
Inventory
Do Not
Inventory
My Father Tells Me He Would Choose to Die
Oracle
Parable
Inventory
Stinging Tide
Bureaucracies
Final Lesson on Love from My Mother and Father
Shovel
Last Poem with My Father in It
***
Reckoning
Morning Meditation
Theory of Destiny
Theory of the Days and Nights
Theory of Power
Theory of Revealing
Parable
Open
Take My Bones Away
Parable
To You in Georgia from Me in North Carolina
Judith Mountains
Sol Invictus
Poem on the Transbay Tube
Blueprints for Future Homes
Argeles-sur-Mer
***
Before the Elegies
Acknowledgments
Notes