Sam Sax

Bury It

Name: Bury It
Brand: Sam Sax
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Winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poetssam sax's bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the...

Winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets

sam sax's bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, begins with poems written in response to the spate of highly publicized young gay suicides in the summer of 2010. What follows are raw and expertly crafted meditations on death, rituals of passage, translation, desire, diaspora, and personhood. What's at stake is survival itself and the archiving of a lived and lyric history. Laughlin Award judge Tyehimba Jess says "bury it is lit with imagery and purpose that surprises and jolts at every turn. Exuberant, wild, tightly knotted mesmerisms of discovery inhabit each poem in this seethe of hunger and sacred toll of toil. A vitalizing and necessary book of poems that dig hard and lift luminously." In this phenomenal second collection of poems, sam sax invites the reader to join him in his interrogation of the bridges we cross, the bridges we burn, and bridges we must leap from.

sam sax is a queer Jewish writer and educator currently living in Brooklyn. He's the author of Madness, winner of the National Poetry Series, and the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion.

Genre: Poetry
Pages: 88
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication Date: September 4, 2018
ISBN: 9780819577313