'I am daring love to be anything else,' A. Loudermilk writes, 'to be on its best behavior wicked, to be heartache / in its prime.' Daring's exactly the word; these fearless and live-wire poems portray Southern culture-and the prism and prison of gender-with candor, rage, and an eye for telling detail so exact it verges on tenderness--Mark Doty. A. Loudermilk's poems, nonfiction, and cultural criticism have appeared in Tin House, The Mississippi Review,...
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