So Far Afield

by Speers, Frederick

• ISBN13: 9780999447116
• ISBN10: 0999447114
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-09-23
• Publisher: Nomadic

Summary

SO FAR AFIELD is a poetic study into the queer nature of love among men--a gay love that's been called contra naturam--tracing their wild desires, spiritual connections, and unspoken encounters, from seaside to cemetery. With a voice both musical and broken, Speers' debut collection incorporates classical lyric forms with a contemporary elliptical style to create new narratives about our old world--a world that keeps on falling in love, even as it's falling apart.

Author Biography

Frederick Speers (he/him) is the author of So Far Afield, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award. His chapbook, In the Year of Our Making and Unmaking was selected by Carl Phillips for the Frontier Poetry chapbook award in 2020. Fred’ s poems have appeared in AGNI (Online); Crab Creek Review, winner of the 2020 poetry contest, selected by Keetje Kuiper; Diode Poetry Journal; Forklift, Ohio; Impossible Archetype; Iron Horse Literary Review; The Ofi Press Magazine; Tahoma Literary Review; Portland Review; The Rumpus; Salamander Magazine; The Straddler; Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly; and Visible Binary. A full-time senior manager for a high tech company, Fred is also a reader for the Beloit Poetry Journal.