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Boy with Flowers

Ely Shipley

Finalist:Lambda Literary Award -Transgender (2008)
Winner:Triangle Awards -Gay Poetry (2009)
Winner of the 2009 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. "Of camouflage, of appearance versus reality, of that darkness out of whichwe hope to draw forth a self we can recognize as our own--these areamong the concerns of these beautifully eerie poems that over and overpurport to navigate one space even as they carry us to spaces the poemsthemselves seem startled to have arrived at."--Carl Phillips

Book Details

  • Publisher: Barrow Street Press
  • Publish Date: Nov 1st, 2008
  • Pages: 71
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.80in - 5.90in - 0.30in - 0.30lb
  • EAN: 9780972830263
  • Categories: American - GeneralLGBTQ+

About the Author

Ely Shipley is the author of BOY WITH FLOWERS (2008), winner of the Barrow Street Press book prize and the Thom Gunn Award, as well as SOME ANIMAL (Nightboat Books, 2018). He teaches at Western Washington University.