My Life as Adam, by three-time Pushcart-nominated poet Bryan Borland, is collection of 70 coming-of-age poems that struggle with the primary dueling forces in the southern United States - family, sexuality, and religion. Among the poems included are "Introduction to Eve," "Flawed Families in Biblical Times," "The Book of David, " On Discovering a Childhood Friend is Gay," and "Levi" (a love letter to Levi Johnston). From Philip F. Clark's introduction: "[Borland] shows us a rogue's gallery of men, all captured in that flash of insight that is both a mirror and a door."  My Life as Adam is Bryan Borland's first book.

My Life as Adam

Politics & Social Sciences

Bryan Borland

Social Sciences

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Poetry. Asian American Studies. LGBT Studies. The poems of BURNINGS explore refugee culture, be the speaker a literal refugee from a torn homeland, or a refugee from his own skin, burning with the heat of awakening eroticism. In this world, we're all refugees from something. As two-time National Slam Champion Roger Bonair-Agard says: "Ocean manages to imbue the desperation of his being alive—with a savage beauty. It is not just that Ocean can render pain as a kind of loveliness, but that his poetic line will not let you forget the hurt or the garish brilliance of your triumph; will not let you look away. These poems shatter us detail by detail because Ocean leaves nothing unturned, because every lived thing in his poems demands to be fed by you; to nourish you in turn. You will not leave these poems dissatisfied. They will fill you utterly."

Burnings

Arts & Photography

Vuong, Ocean

History & Criticism

Poetry. LGBT Studies. In the follow-up to his critically acclaimed collection MUTE, Raymond Luczak sets out on a turbulent journey after ending a 15-year relationship. The poems of ROAD WORK AHEAD follow Luczak as he meets kindred souls on his travels and wonders what it means to love again. He opens the suitcase of his heart in far-flung cities and points beyond. His poems, pungent with musk and ache, will open yours too.

Road Work Ahead

Literature & Fiction

Luczak, Raymond

Poetry

Poetry. In her debut collection of poems, Theresa Senato Edwards gives voice to womanhood, from daughter and mother to warrior and lover. Through whispers and screams, her words shatter the glass of the page; and when the conversation is over, a song of strength reverberates.

Voices Through Skin

Senato Edwards, Theresa

Magazine. Poetry. LGBT Studies. ASSARACUS is a quarterly journal of gay poetry, features a substantial collection of work by ten gay poets. ISSUE 02 features poetry by Philip F. Clark, Collin Kelley, Michael Klein, Ron Mohring, Evan J. Peterson, Steven Riel, Sam Sax, Robert Siek, Christopher Soden, and Wonder Dave. Edited by poet Bryan Borland, author of the American Library Association-honored My Life as Adam.

Assaracus Issue 02: A Journal of Gay Poetry

Poetry. LGBT Studies. The autobiographical poems of Steven Reigns's INHERITANCE introduce us to the gains and losses of a true American family and detail the bequests of the shadows that linger. Reigns glosses over nothing to reveal the secrets that turn suburbia into a coming-of-age battlefield. As Mark Doty says: "Steven Reigns's graceful, plainspoken lyrics describe the shape of one gay life at the beginning of this new century, a time of uncertainty, transformation, and hope. To read his book is to meet a man alert to his times and the textures of the lives around him, a community observed with tenderness, wit and pleasure."

Inheritance

Reigns, Steven

Magazine. Poetry. LGBT Studies. ASSARACUS is a quarterly journal of gay poetry, features a substantial collection of work by ten gay poets. ISSUE 01 features poetry by Shane Allison, Jay Burodny, Gavin Dillard, Christopher Hennessy, Matthew Hittinger, James Kangas, Raymond Luczak, Frank J Miles, Stephen Mills, and Eric Norris. Edited by poet Bryan Borland, author of the American Library Association-honored My Life as Adam.

Assaracus Issue 01: A Journal of Gay Poetry

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Poems touching on religion, sexuality, Southern life, and self-acceptance reveal the poet's growing up, coming out, and becoming an adult in all its joys and sorrows. MY LIFE AS ADAM is Bryan Borland's full-length debut and was included as one of only five collections of poetry on the American Library Association's inaugural "Over the Rainbow" list of best LGBT books of 2010.

Borland, Bryan

Magazine. Poetry. LGBT Studies. ASSARACUS is a quarterly journal of gay poetry, features a substantial collection of work by ten gay poets. ISSUE 03 features poetry by Antler, Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Bryan Borland, Steven Cordova, Carl Miller Daniels, Jeremy Halinen, Terry Jaensch, Scott Wiggerman, Chuck Willman, and Nicholas YB Wong, plus ten poets on James Franco (Shane Allison, Bradley Bentz, Perry Brass, Philip Clark, Alex Dimitrov, Jory Mickelson, Stephen Scott Mills, Ed Rose, Sam Sanders, and Luke Shearfrond) and an introduction by Frank J Miles. Cover Art by Cody Henslee featuring Spencer Smith. Our biggest issue yet!

Assaracus Issue 03: A Journal of Gay Poetry

Poetry. In FAT GIRL, Jessie Carty asks us to strip and stand naked in front of a mirror. These poems are our own reflection. Bittersweet in nature, they are self-perception. They size us up and tell the truth: that man or woman, we all struggle to feel at home in our own skins.

Fat Girl

Carty, Jessie

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My Life as Adam

Burnings

Road Work Ahead

Voices Through Skin

Assaracus Issue 02: A Journal of Gay Poetry

Inheritance

Assaracus Issue 01: A Journal of Gay Poetry

My Life as Adam

Assaracus Issue 03: A Journal of Gay Poetry

Fat Girl