Sam Sax

Sad Boy / Detective (2015)

Each poem is titled “the boy detective ...” which has the effect of turning things around, like a jewel glinting in different lights, with a common threat pulling through them all.

All the Rage (2016)

“Sex + Love Addiction” is a powerful and hard poem – facing the insults and shame pushed on gay man full in the face.

“The Italian Root of Quarantine is” seems to be a echo backward from so much we have felt during COVID.

 

Madness (2017)

Each selection begins with an extract from the 1952 DSM-I which lists Homosexuality among the disorders and end with a different poem titled On PREP or On Prayer – it is taking troubling themes and opening them up – giving voice to pain that many hold so deep they don’t see it any more 

Bury It (2018)

I tagged…

BILDUNGSROMAN which begins “i never wanted to grow up to be anything horrible | as a man. ...”

EASSY ON CRYING IN PUBLIC

BUTTHOLE

KADDISH, one segment of which is these haunting lines

please

 

tell

me

how

am

i

supposed

to

go

on

knowing

you

are

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