Celebrate Pride with Lockheed Martin

By (author): Jake Byrne

Celebrate Pride with Lockheed Martin is a swirl of energy, emotion and observation that takes the reader across the world on a Carmen Sandiego–like journey as well as deep into the complexities of modern queer life. Unabashedly sexual, and embracing a wide range of styles and tones, Byrne’s poems move easily from lines of love and desire to sharp critiques of capitalism and war, and the co-opting of queer culture by them both. These are destabilizing poems, poems filled with glittering imagery and ideas and questions and truths, poems that share the poet’s longing to live in a time that is not “as cruel and unjust / As every other time has been before it.”

AUTHOR

Jake Byrne

Jake Byrne is a poet and writer based in Toronto, Canada. Their work has been published in journals and anthologies in North America. Their poem “Parallel Volumes” won CV2’s Foster Poetry Prize for 2019, and their first two books of poetry are forthcoming in 2023 with Wolsak & Wynn and in 2024 with Brick Books, respectively. Find them @jakebyrnewrites.


Reviews

“Theirs is a lyric blend of dream-space and cutthroat narrative precision, wistful pondering and catty remarks, combined with an air of notebook or journal entries … This is a book of anxieties, desire, hardcore declarations, queerness and righteous indignation, composing rebukes as sly offhanded comments that usually find their targets. This is a book of distances, from those travelled to those between.”


– periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics

The Tide, Jake Byrne’s debut chapbook, is at once both hilarious and tragic. . . . [Byrne asks] in what and in whom can the speaker put their trust after such considerable personal and worldly loss? The speaker wades into dense, hushed moments of lived betrayal, rejection, and abuse, never simplifying the complexity of accountability.”
– Vallum

“Exploring ideas of truth, confession and trauma, Byrne’s poem works to wash away the sins of the world, articulating into words what only then can be properly removed.”
– rob mclennan’s blog

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Celebrate Pride with Lockheed Martin is a swirl of energy, emotion and observation that takes the reader across the world on a Carmen Sandiego–like journey as well as deep into the complexities of modern queer life. Unabashedly sexual, and embracing a wide range of styles and tones, Byrne’s poems move easily from lines of love and desire to sharp critiques of capitalism and war, and the co-opting of queer culture by them both. These are destabilizing poems, poems filled with glittering imagery and ideas and questions and truths, poems that share the poet’s longing to live in a time that is not “as cruel and unjust / As every other time has been before it.”

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Details

Dimensions:

168 Pages
8.5in * 5.75in * 0.538in
300gr

Published:

April 18, 2023

City of Publication:

Hamilton

Country of Publication:

CA

ISBN:

9781989496640

Book Subjects:

POETRY / LGBTQ+

Language:

eng

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