A Congregation of Alligators - Softcover

Thompson, Grayson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1949342794 ISBN 13: 9781949342796

Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

A two-lane Florida roadway opened in 1968. Now a superhighway, Alligator Alley, quickly became a dangerous place for tired people driving to (or from) the outline of home. A reckoning of which came first, the person or the dinosaur, straddling becoming. Grayson arrived to this book at the collision, and meant every word. Found each answer at the corner of rebellion and tenderness. Was afraid of the dark the entire time and still is. A self-described sand-bodied Florida boy, A Congregation of Alligators explores what happens when the stories we’ve been told about ourselves, as old as the beginning and taught to us so true that they feel prehistoric, were put to rest.

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About the Author

Grayson Thompson is a Black, Jamaican-American, queer trans cowboy poetmoonlighting as a therapist. A mouthful, Grayson is winner of Write Bloody's 2024 JackMcCarthy Book Prize and Foglifter Press' 2024 Start A Riot! Chapbook Prize for SandBodied Florida Boy. He's been featured in Cathexis Northwest, Cleaver, Poetry Online,and other homes for poetry. During the 2024 AWP Conference, Grayson opened for theamazing Donika Kelly with Chicago's Exhibit B. Grayson is a TA for Buddy Wakefield'sWriter's Anonymous, supporting emerging and established word assemblers. Awanderer, he lives in Northern California. He chooses madness, honest and full-hearted.He hopes you can find some in his poems.

Edition details

• Publisher: Write Bloody Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1949342794
• ISBN 13: 9781949342796
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 130