Sam Sax
1) Pig: Poems
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From the brilliantly talented National Poetry Series and James Laughlin Award winner comes a third collection of poems that uses the humble pig as a lens to explore the body, faith, desire, and power.
This imaginative and singular poetry collection interrogates the broadest ideas surrounding the humble pig-farm animal, men/masculinity, police and state violence, desire, queerness, global food systems, religion/Judaism and law, to reimagine various...
2) Yr Dead
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"It's not just that I trust Sam Sax's imagination. My sincere belief is that Sam's creative freedom unlocks the potential for our liberation."
—Saeed Jones, author of How We Fight for Our Lives In between the space of time when Ezra lights themself on fire and when Ezra dies the world of this book flashes before their eyes. Everyone Ezra's ever loved, every place they've felt queer and at home, or queer and out of place, reveals...
—Saeed Jones, author of How We Fight for Our Lives In between the space of time when Ezra lights themself on fire and when Ezra dies the world of this book flashes before their eyes. Everyone Ezra's ever loved, every place they've felt queer and at home, or queer and out of place, reveals...
3) Madness
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"An "astounding" (Terrance Hayes) debut collection of poems - Winner of the 2016 National Poetry Series Competition. In this powerful debut collection, Sam Sax explores and explodes the linkages between desire, addiction, and the history of mental health. These brave, formally dexterous poems examine antiquated diagnoses and procedures from hysteria to lobotomy; offer meditations on risky sex; and take up the poet's personal and family histories as...