Aftermath (Hilary Tham Capital Collection) - Softcover

March, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1944585206 ISBN 13: 9781944585204

Publisher: Word Works, 2018

Synopsis

In Thomas March’s debut collection, Aftermath, the author turns over a lifetime of queer desire never quite requited enough. In these poems, aesthetic payoffs arrive through technical precision, but desire, death, jealousy and grief stay as messy and unresolvable here as they are in life.

According to judge JoanLarkin, the poems explore “queer identity, troubled masculinity, and those unsettling truths that illuminate and disorient consciousness.”

Startling aphorisms, like grief as “a cold bath / only your own / body warms,” lie alongside generous sentences stretched taut over March’s metrical frames. Even the most material of experiences, the weight of a drunk’s dead body in his pallbearers’ arms, glints with the clarity poetry can give it. March is never sentimental, but his personae understand desire for the sometimes petty, sometimes expansive experience that it is, and he gives us a collection that feels at once generous and sophisticated, full of poems wild with wanting, yet precisely controlled in their delivery. Aftermath is the introduction of a brave and essential new voice in American poetry.

A ftermath is intended for a general adult readership. 

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About the Author

Thomas March is a poet, teacher and critic based in New York City. His poetry has appeared in many journals, including Bellevue Literary Review, The Good Men Project, Pleiades, and Public Pool. His reviews and essays have appeared in The Believer, The Huffington Post, and New Letters. Appearing regularly in Lambda Literary Review, his poetry column, Appreciations, offers close readings of poems from recent collections by LGBTQ poets. Recipient of the Norma Millay Ellis Fellowship in Poetry from the Millay Colony for the Arts, he has also received an Artist/Writer grant from The Vermont Studio Center.

Edition details

• Publisher: Word Works
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1944585206
• ISBN 13: 9781944585204
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 84