When You Read a Novel the Dead Would Like
From distinguished poet Benjamin S. Grossberg comes a bracing exploration of how the fear of death softens into acceptance.Â
Benjamin S. Grossbergâs When You Read a Novel the Dead Would Like is about how we come to understand deathâsometimes in terror, sometimes in loss, and perhaps, in the sober assessments of middle age, with calm acceptance, when what may have loomed as a nightmare can come to seem unremarkable, familiar, even a âprivate wonder.â The poems span the trauma of coming out as a gay man at the height of the US AIDS epidemic to the advent of PrEPâa class of HIV-prevention drugsâtwenty-five years later. The poems wrestle with the growing awareness that, though one bugbear may press less close, death still waits, patient and inevitable. A series of elegies for the poetâs mother, who returns as a wry, irreverent ghost âswirling/ice cubes in a tumbler of vodka,â lies at the heart of this ranging, cinematic collection.
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From distinguished poet Benjamin S. Grossberg comes a bracing exploration of how the fear of death softens into acceptance.Â
Benjamin S. Grossbergâs When You Read a Novel the Dead Would Like is about how we come to understand deathâsometimes in terror, sometimes in loss, and perhaps, in the sober assessments of middle age, with calm acceptance, when what may have loomed as a nightmare can come to seem unremarkable, familiar, even a âprivate wonder.â The poems span the trauma of coming out as a gay man at the height of the US AIDS epidemic to the advent of PrEPâa class of HIV-prevention drugsâtwenty-five years later. The poems wrestle with the growing awareness that, though one bugbear may press less close, death still waits, patient and inevitable. A series of elegies for the poetâs mother, who returns as a wry, irreverent ghost âswirling/ice cubes in a tumbler of vodka,â lies at the heart of this ranging, cinematic collection.
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From distinguished poet Benjamin S. Grossberg comes a bracing exploration of how the fear of death softens into acceptance.Â
Benjamin S. Grossbergâs When You Read a Novel the Dead Would Like is about how we come to understand deathâsometimes in terror, sometimes in loss, and perhaps, in the sober assessments of middle age, with calm acceptance, when what may have loomed as a nightmare can come to seem unremarkable, familiar, even a âprivate wonder.â The poems span the trauma of coming out as a gay man at the height of the US AIDS epidemic to the advent of PrEPâa class of HIV-prevention drugsâtwenty-five years later. The poems wrestle with the growing awareness that, though one bugbear may press less close, death still waits, patient and inevitable. A series of elegies for the poetâs mother, who returns as a wry, irreverent ghost âswirling/ice cubes in a tumbler of vodka,â lies at the heart of this ranging, cinematic collection.
