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About this book
An exciting new edition/entry to Milkweed's Multiverse series—a visionary collection of poetry advocating for the excited, the rebellious, and the neuroqueer.
In this momentous debut, Sid Ghosh invites the reader “to be so free that it scares you.” Leveraging gem-like koans, technicolor wordplay, and earth-shaking wit, he creates startling new worlds in only a handful of words. As a nonspeaking autistic writer with Down syndrome who must navigate immense sensorimotor complexity, his short poems are both muscular and agile, displaying a dexterity replete with vertiginous grace: “Spinning I harness / poetry of the Earth. // The Sufi dances / in me to dare me // to scare your loud / soul to ensnare // my fearful mind to / bare some misery / to bear some truth.”
Ghosh writes beyond his years and from a perspective steeped in queer and fractaled sensibilities. As one who is “simply privy to a new road,” he renders neurodiverse thought patterns as truly divine. The poems that result bristle with wisdom, divergence, and the “generosity of deep rivers.” Unprecedented in its genius and composition, this collection of poems is sure to leave readers wide-eyed and breathless.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Tuning Goes Frig
- I Remember
- Sidereal
- Images
- Showers of Silence
- Every Poem Is a Bell
- Giant Rat
- Moxie
- Life
- After the Traveler
- Rotary Club
- Tap Dance
- I No a Poet
- Story of My Hindered Life
- Hats May Perish
- Marigolds Marry Gold
- Slow Mo
- Haul of Stars
- On Teenage
- Malware
- Volcanic Mind
- Hats Have Feelings
- Other Timeless People
- Vicious
- What Is
- Self-Portrait
- Greece
- Mister River
- Toil
- Give a Book Bequeath a Mind
- Meandering Dunes
- Nomad
- Gearbox
- Trap
- I Am Here
- I Love You
- Tin Man
- NerD
- Be
- Infrared
- If I Cared
- Nifty
- Gillings
- Gearbox 2
- Demon Hat
- Ask Me About Where I Am
- Hammer
- Interstices
- Don’t Be Mad
- Aspire
- Umbrella
- Be Mum
- First
- Warzone
- Gelly Man
- Marigold on Marijuana
- My Hard Philosophy
- Valentine’s Day
- Half Life
- Mother Is the Grandfather
- Xmas I Am Sorry. I Was There Earlier
- Lumberyard
- Ebb and Total Flow
- Gestation
- Camp Fire
- Go So Far That Life Stops
- By the River One Died and the Other Survived
- Rottation
- Game of Thorns
- Bossing
- Fear Veer
- My Themes
- Moonstone
- Love Stud
- Hefty Price
- Hear This Shot
- Disco
- Better Words
- Colonel
- Mangled Life
- Leila
- Mad Men
- First You
- Hope
- Feels Like Home
- Kelp
- No Thanks
- Fey
- Fox Trot
- Lie Down
- Let Them Go
- Let Me Go
- When Queer Minds Roar
- Real Weed
- Certainly We’ll Sew Worlds
- God
- When Asked to Define the Word “Queer”
- Are We Really Free?
- About the Author