<p>With calm abandon, Rob Schlegel stands among the genderless trees to shake notions of masculinity and fatherhood. Schlegel incorporates the visionary into everyday life, inhabiting patterns of relation that do not rely on easy categories. Working from the premise that poetry is indistinguishable from the life of the poet, Schlegel considers how his relationship to the creative process is forever changed when he becomes something new to someone else. “The meaning I’m trying to protect is,” Schlegel writes, “the heart is neither boy, nor girl.” <i>In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps</i> is a tender search for the mother in the father, the poet in the parent, the forest in the human.</p>

In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps (Iowa Poetry Prize)

Literature & Fiction

Schlegel, Rob

Poetry

University Of Iowa Press

Winner of the 2009 Colorado Prize for Poetry Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University

The Lesser Fields (Colorado Prize for Poetry)

Center for Literary Publishing

Childcare

Four Way Books

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