Displaying 1 of 1 2012 Format: Book Author: Richard, Brad, author. Title: Butcher's sugar / Brad Richard. Edition: First Sibling Rivalry Press edition. Publisher, Date: Alexander, Arkansas : Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012. Description: 71 pages ; 23 cm Subjects: Gay men -- Poetry. Genre: Poetry. Other Author: Bemis/Flaherty Collection of Gay Poetry. Other Title: Poems. Selections Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Web Site: Publisher description LCCN: 2012941134 ISBN: 9781937420253 1937420256 Other Number: 811605070 System Availability: 2 # System items in: 1 # Local items: 2 # Local items in: 1 Current Holds: 0 Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Large Cover Image Summary Poetry. LGBT Studies. With a beauty purged of sweetness, the voices of BUTCHER'S SUGAR sing of the sublime in the debased, violence and desire, the truth of whatever is "rank with the carcass of mystery." Moving from childhood through adulthood, these poems re-inhabit and reclaim myths about the body and the self. "Perhaps one turns to Christ or the pagan gods as an escape from the abject real of the body's stench. Perhaps to make love to a man is to always make love to the boy hidden underneath, forgotten. This need to both adore and kill what we no longer recognize within ourselves. Our bodies broken into, publicly shamed. Unmask the centurions, the butchers, and perhaps you'd instantly recognize their faces, Brad Richard suggests, if only you had his eyes to see."--Timothy Liu Librarian's View Syndetics Unbound Displaying 1 of 1
