Thrown in the Throat :

Garcia, Benjamin 1987- (author.). Ali, Kazim. (Added Author).

Summary: Selected by Kazim Ali as a winner of the 2019 National Poetry Series, Thrown in the Throat "gloriously stakes new territory in queerness."

Record details

ISBN: 9781571315212
Physical Description: 66 pages : ; 22 cm
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Edition: Paperback.
Publisher: Minneapolis, MN : Milkweed Editions, 2020.
Copyright: 2020

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

The language in question --Warrior song --Averting the gaze --On the slight cruelty of mothers --Eye of the hurricane --Ode to the corpse flower --The language in question --Heroin with an E --Le daría mis pulmones --To the unborn sibling --Reasons for abolishing ice --Mourning dove --A father's portrait in styrofoam --Conversations with my father / a poem in closet verse --Ode to the peacock --This way to the egress --The darkest lashes --The memory jar --Queso de patas --The language in question --The great glass closet --A toast to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah --Ode to the pitcher plant --Mutual monogamy --Nonmonogamy --Bliss point or what can best be achieved by cheese --Anti-ode to the man-of-war --Birds of illegal trade --Silver City, New Mexico --Self-portrait as a man-made diamond --Heart conceit --Gay epithalamium --Huitlacoche --Ode to the touch-me-not --The language in question --Keeping home --Ode to Adam Rippon's butt.

Awards Note:

Winner of National Poetry Series 2019 (United States)