Stop Lying - Couverture souple

Smith, Aaron

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822967049 ISBN 13 : 9780822967040

Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024

Synopsis

Stop Lying is Aaron Smith's most personal and vulnerable work yet. Revolving around the death of the poet's mother and how Smith, a gay man, faces his upbringing where his sexuality was viewed as sinful and unnatural, these poems plumb the complexities of what families say and choose not to say. How does one grieve when a relationship will forever remain unresolved? What does it mean to both regret and not regret one's decisions? What if survival doesn't look like what we're told it should? This is the story of a poet pushing through present-day grief and the shame of the past to find the buried truths, the ones that are hardest to tell.

AFTERLIFE

Sometimes
the hardest part

is wondering
if my mother died

believing
I would go

to hell

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Aaron Smith is the author of three books of poetry: Primer, Appetite, and Blue on Blue Ground, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. His work has appeared in numerous publications including Ploughshares and Best American Poetry. A three-time finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, he is the recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Mass Cultural Council. He is associate professor of creative writing at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822967049
• ISBN 13: 9780822967040
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 108
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