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- Title
- Flinch
- Author
- Julian Vale
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798171465636
- Item weight
- 150 grams
A boy learns to look at the locker-room floor. A man, thirty years later, lets go of his husband's hand on an empty street before he's decided to. Nobody taught him. He taught himself, in about a week.
Flinch is a collection of 108 poems about gay men and what the body keeps after the danger is gone: the voice you fixed at twelve, the chair your mother sets near the door, the age you keep lowering in your filters, the curtains you don't remember deciding to leave open.
This is not a coming-out book. It is a book about everything after. The bars and the apps. The first funeral and the ordinary one. Weddings, divorces, grandfathers, the last single man at a table of husbands. The father who never apologized and calls every Sunday anyway. The man who does the onion wrong, and the one who says your name the way it was always meant to sound.
Inside you'll find poems about:
- Growing up gay and the habits that outlast it
- First love that had to call itself friendship
- Desire, hookups, beauty, and getting older in a culture that only wants you young
- Long marriage: the funny, the boring, the sexless, the forgotten anniversary
- Fathers, mothers, brothers, and the family you build instead
- Loss, AIDS memory, and the strange victory of dying old
- Love, said plainly: I don't mean I feel something when I look at you. I mean I'm looking.
Written in plain, unflinching language, short enough to read on a train and sharp enough to stay with you for a week, these are poems for the man who still checks the street and the man who has stopped, and can't say when.
Perfect for: readers of gay and LGBTQ poetry, fans of Richard Siken and Ocean Vuong, anyone who has ever hidden and anyone who loves someone who did. A meaningful gift for a boyfriend, a husband, a friend who just came out, or a mother trying to understand her son.
Flinch is the debut collection from Julian Vale.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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