Kelly McQuain

Scrape the Velvet from Your Antlers

Poems

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"In questioning the boundaries between the world and oneself, Scrape the Velvet from Your Antlers unflinchingly explores the dark eddies of coming of age and coming out. Kelly McQuain's poems are far roaming in setting and far ranging in style, depicting the richness of a rural West Virginia upbringing as well as contemporary adulthood in the big city and abroad. Glints of humor and glimpses of pathos abound in the imaginative leaps these poems take as they tackle such subjects as LGBTQ sexuality, homophobia, domestic abuse, and racism. Unafraid to push the limits of contemporary sonics, McQuain's work is rich in music and varied in form, with new riffs on the sonnet, the villanelle, and the persona poem. Accessible and lyrical, this debut collection deftly explores the homes we come from and the homes we create-all the while shining with wonder and resolve"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Texas Review Press
• Seitenzahl: 100
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 156mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 154g
• ISBN-13: 9781680033328
• ISBN-10: 1680033328
• Artikelnr.: 66759340

Autorenporträt

KELLY MCQUAIN grew up in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia and is the author of two previous chapbooks, Velvet Rodeo (winner of the Bloom Award) and Antlers. His poetry has appeared in Best New Poets, American Poetry Review, The Pinch, Kestrel, Appalachian Review, and in numerous anthologies. Also an artist, McQuain's paintings have appeared in books, journals, magazines and galleries. He currently works as a professor of English in Philadelphia.