Description
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. This new printing has French flaps. "Julie Marie Wade's lush post-confessional poems are unabashed in their desire, tentative then bold in their knowledge. They're sparkly talismans to transform and transport us, delicacies with creamy insides to fill us up. WHEN I WAS STRAIGHT is a profound 'before and after' examination of the self, complete with cultural and family commentary—delightful, heartbreaking, magic and real stories with a multitude of prepositions to guide us: a gifted young poet's coming to, coming out, coming jubilantly back into self."—Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton
Author Bio
Julie Marie Wade's collections include SKIRTED (The Word Works, 2021), Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures, Small Fires: Essays, Postage Due: Poems & Prose Poems, WHEN I WAS STRAIGHT (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2018), SIX, SAME-SEXY MARRIAGE (A Midsummers Night's Press, 2018), CATECHISM: A LOVE STORY (Noctuary Press, 2016), and Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing. With Denise Duhamel, she wrote The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose, and with Brenda Miller, Telephone: Essays in Two Voices. A winner of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series and the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir, she teaches in the creative writing program at Florida International University and reviews regularly for Lambda Literary Review and The Rumpus.
Author City: HOLLYWOOD, FL USA