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Starred Review on October 15, 2018 | Arts & Humanities
Winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award, Sax's sophomore effort continues the themes and tenor of his debut (Madness), exploring the often tragic social and emotional complexities of queer life in America. Triggered by the alarmingly high suicide rate among young gay males, the poems here constitute a 21st-century Book of the Dead, a frank, often harrowing elegy to those for whom the u...Log In or Sign Up to Read More