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category: Poetry
published: Oct 2023
ISBN:9781771668514
publisher: Book*hug Press

Queers Like Me

by Michael V. Smith

tagged: lgbt, death, canadian
Description

Confessional and immersive, Michael V. Smith’s latest collection is a broad tapestry that explores growing up queer and working class, then growing into an urban queer life.

In these poems, we are immersed in the world of a young Smith as he shares the awkward dinners, the funerals, and the uncertainty of navigating fraught dynamics, bringing us into these most intimate moments of family life while outrunning deep grief. Smith moves from first home to first queer experiences: teenage crushes, video cameras, post-club hookups, fears and terrors, closeted lovers, and daydreams of confronting your childhood bully.

Queers Like Me is an enveloping book— a meditation on family complexity and a celebration of personal insight.

About the Author

Michael V. Smith

Michael V. Smith is a writer, comedian, filmmaker, performance artist and occasional clown. He is the author of several books including What You Can't Have (Signature Editions, 2006), which was short-listed for the ReLit Award, and My Body Is Yours (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2015), which was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. He is also the winner of the inaugural Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers and was nominated for the Journey Prize. Smith currently teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia's Okanagan campus in Kelowna. Bad Ideas is his latest collection of poetry.

Editorial Review

"One of the important themes in Queers Like Me is family, not the one we choose but the one into which we are born." —The British Columbia Review

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