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Beforelight / Matthew Gellman ; foreword by Tina Chang.
Van Pelt Library PS3607.E454 B44 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gellman, Matthew, author.
- Series:
- New poets of America series ; vol. 52.
- New poets of America series ; no. 52
- Standardized Title:
- Beforelight (Compilation)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sexual minorities--Identity--Poetry.
- Sexual minorities.
- Identity (Psychology)--Poetry.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Interpersonal relations--Poetry.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Sexual minorities--Identity.
- Sexual identity.
- LGBTQ+ people.
- Genre:
- Poetry
- Queer poetry
- Queer poetry.
- LGBTQ+ poetry
- Physical Description:
- 101 pages ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, LTD., 2024.
- Summary:
- "Beforelight explores queer childhood as a site of rupture and queer coming-of-age as a process of both becoming and unbecoming. The speaker in these poems confronts the impacts of ruptured relationships and trauma on his nascent identity. Grounded, lyrical, and deeply psychological, these poems grapple with the fragility of our most formative relationships - familial, communal and ancestral - as the speaker searches for a communion with himself, and how not to "make a life out of pain.""-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, 2022
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Gellman, Matthew. Beforelight
- ISBN:
- 9781960145109
- 196014510X
- OCLC:
- 1391324500
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