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Aug 6, 2024 | 
bookshop.org | McSweeney's Publishing |Sam Sax |Rita Bullwinkel
(Author) (Editor) FORMAT Backorder (temporarily out of stock) Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller Bookshop.org has the highest-rated customer service of any bookstore in the world Description "It's not just that I trust Sam Sax's imagination.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
bookbrowse.com | Sam Sax
About This Book Summary Excerpt Book Summary In between the space of time when Ezra lights themself on fire and when Ezra dies the world of this book flashes before their eyes. Everyone Ezra's ever loved, every place they've felt queer and at home, or queer and out of place, reveals itself in an instant.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
poets.org | Ally Ang |Meg Day |Sam Sax
Skip to main contentFind and share the perfect poems. I used to think my body craved annihilation. An inevitability, like the slow asphyxiation of the earth. Yoked to this body by beauty, its shallow promises I was desperate to believe, too fearful to renounce my allegiance even with its hand closing around my throat. When I chose myself, I chose surrender. God is the river that remakes me in its image. I didn’t know what was waiting on the other side. I swam through it anyway.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
lithub.com | Sam Sax
the more i learn, the more i learni don’t know what the fucki’m talking about. someonewho doesn’t care a fig for poetrymight think i knew a lotyet in most bookshops i’m lost,shelves heavy with the bodiesof forgotten writers. it’s relative. a president can say audacity ora president can say sad & both eatthe slow-cured meat of empire. when i say i carry my peopleinside me i don’t mean a country.
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Sep 19, 2023 | 
bookshop.org | Sam Sax
(Author) FORMAT Paperback$17.00$15.81(English) Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third collection of poems that uses the humble pig as a lens to explore the body, faith, desire, and power.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
theatlantic.com | Sam Sax
A poem for Wednesdaymy ex wanted a pet pig, so we imagined it. even gave the thing a name, rubbed its invisible head before bed—years later, on a rooftop, my ex confesses she cheated on me: the city stretching out before us filled with brightly locked doors. the harm’s far enough away i don’t notice it. a footnote swallowed ages ago.
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Sep 13, 2023 | 
electricliterature.com | Wynter K. Miller |Sam Sax
Skip to content Take a Bow, Gas Station Drag Queen behind the gas station the queen begins facing away from the crowd. low cut back, floor length gown. pulses a knee to the music,arm on hip, believable human silhouette. i should know this song.
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Sep 12, 2023 | 
thenation.com | Larissa Pham |Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins |Ben Furnas |Sam Sax
Books & the Arts / A conversation about how the pandemic changed our relationship to the natural world, distrusting beauty, the challenges of writing about climate change, and her new book, The Light Room. Ad PolicyKate Zambreno’s The Light Room is a book of boxes, surfaces, and close observation, set during the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
thebaffler.com | Sam Sax |Christos Ikonomou |Fady Joudah
you can smell it soon as you enter the state caught from space the pools look like wounds in the earth cut precise and surgically pink hundreds of millions live and die inside the factory waste falls through the slats & slides into pits stored in the open to be sprayed onto crops which are fed to the pigs’ children pink viscous circle some humans mistake the spray for rain some children open their mouths to catch faith on their tongues the rain makes its way into homes even with the windows...
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Mar 16, 2023 | 
simonandschuster.com | Sam Sax
Pig By Sam Sax Read by Sam Sax Trade Paperback LIST PRICE $17.00 PRICE MAY VARY BY RETAILER Table of Contents About The Book From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third collection of poems that uses the humble pig as a lens to explore the body, faith, desire, and power.
