An “astounding” (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems – Winner of the National Poetry Series Competition In this powerful debut collection, sam sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire, addiction, and the history of mental health. These brave, formally dexterous poems examine antiquated diagnoses and procedures from hysteria to lobotomy; offer meditations on risky sex; and take up the poet’s personal and family histories as mental health patients and practitioners. Ultimately, Madness attempts to build a queer lineage out of inherited language and cultural artifacts; these poems trouble the static categories of sanity, heterosexuality, masculinity, normality, and health. sax’s innovative collection embodies the strange and disjunctive workings of the mind as it grapples to make sense of the world around it.

Madness (Penguin Poets)

Literature & Fiction

Sax, Sam

Genre Fiction

Penguin??Books

A collection of vivid examinations of the gristle &amp; marrow of sweet truth and bitter honesty. Authored by the extraordinary talents of such poets. Robert Zenz, Caits Meissner, Jay Nelson, William James, Daniel Patterson, Khari Waits, Christopher Mohar, Sam Sax, Matt Matriaciano, Benjamin Biesek, EK Keith, Amber Culbertson-Faegre , Abe Becker, Leigh Cuen, William Taylor Jr, Joshua Merchant, Joan Colby , Paul Corman Roberts, Richard King Perkins II Mg Martin, Ori Fienberg, Peter Bullen, SB Stokes, Christopher Woods, Kristin Ryan,Jasmine Leung, C Anne Gardner, baraka noel, Eric Allen Yankee, Gregory Curry, O’Helloron, Terry Barr, Mitchell Grabois, Richard King Perkins II, July Westhale, Jasmine Schlafke, Kyle Lee, Cora Thornton Silver, Charles Bane Jr., Connor Maltby, Troy Cunio, Thea Matthews. Edited and curated by Sean Taylor, baraka noel, and C Anne Gardner. With an introduction by Sean Taylor.

Sweet Wolverine: a Collection

JAMES, WILLIAM

Patterson, Daniel

Wolverine, Sweet

Zenz, Robert

Meissner, Caits

Nelson, Jay

Waits, Khari

Mohar, Christopher

Matriaciano, Matt

United States

Seventh Tangent

bury it (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

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.

Self-Help

Death & Grief

Wesleyan University Press

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.

Poetry

Wesleyan

Teardrops in Sand: The Man...the Mood...the Moments...

History & Criticism

Volunteer Pubns

Poetry. "Forgive my bluntness, but... Goddamn, Sam Sax can write some poems. Devastating, comic, inventive, weird, dangerous, smart as hell. I could talk about the diction sometimes glass and sometimes bouquet. Or the syntax jagged here, balletic there. Or the metaphors, good lord. But the bottom line is that when reading the poems in A GUIDE TO UNDRESSING YOUR MONSTERS, one after the next, I kept saying to myself, probably twisting my face a little bit or squirming in my seat, 'Goddamn, Sam Sax can write some poems.'"—Ross Gay

A Guide to Undressing Your Monsters

Button Poetry

Past Unforgiving Midnight

AuthorHouse

The Silence Between

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