pickA poetry collection that according to the blurb “are hymns to the male body - to male friendship and male love - muscular, sometimes shocking, but always deeply moving.”
Poetry is not really my thing, so this collection is somewhere between a pick and a so-so rating, but I am going to an event with him right after Easter and I wanted to read some of his poetry before that.
2nd book for #MarvellousMarch
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My NY resolution will be try more poetry as Ive often struggled. Id been intrigued by this collection having heard him speak + I found its portrait of men in all aspects raw, graphic, brutal + tender. The image of men as question marks hugging gives beauty to love they share. It doesn't shy from bodily function, + weakness as in the gym poem+ loss of a father. On to 2022
pickI first heard about this book in a Guardian Books podcast and found it fascinating that Physical is the first book of poetry ever to win the Guardian First Book Prize. I didn't know much about it when I ordered it, but I immediately fell in love. McMillan captures so much of what is uniquely human in his poems, centering on the body and how it reacts when outside forces press down on it.
Not many people seem to read poetry but I can be so moved by it. This volume from a young gay poet is well titled - physical. So sensory, with gaps for the breath, and then this poem about breath moving from yoga to love/sex. Fantastic.
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