Description
Another tour de force book of poetry and flash prose from the multi-genre talent, Richard Loranger.
MAMMAL is a collection of Richard Loranger’s poetry and flash prose that is grounded in his poetics of reexamination and the consistent questioning of the nature of most everything. Starting with a delve into his experience of fluid gender, identity, and self, the work expands to explore protean perspectives of culture, institutions, sex, relationships, self-reflection, and American life, carried by his distinctive and gleeful language-play and stylistics that push the boundaries of connotation and embrace a plurality of meaning.
Poetry, LGBTQ+ Studies.
“I avidly look forward to each new Richard Loranger book. Loranger has a very distinctive poetic voice, and it is on full view in MAMMAL. Equally persuasive on the subject of butterflies, pronouns, or insomnia, Loranger takes us all on a wild ride through levels of understanding. 'As long as we think we’re our bodies / we’re fucked,' Richard offers, and it would be ungrateful to disagree.”
—Kim Shuck, 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco Emerita
Author Bio
Richard Loranger is a multi-genre writer, performer, musician, and visual artist who has been working around the United States for over forty years. They have lived in many parts of the country, including New York, Austin, Boulder, Ann Arbor, Chicago, and San Francisco, and he currently lives and works in Oakland, CA. They are the author of Unit of Agency (Collapse Press, 2021), Be A Bough Tit (Be About It Press, 2020), Sudden Windows (Zeitgeist Press, 2016), Poems for Teeth (We Press, 2005), The Orange Book (International Review Press, 1990), and ten chapbooks, and has work in over 100 magazines and journals.
Author City: OAKLAND, CA USA