Queers Like Me

By (author): Michael V. Smith

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.

AUTHOR

Michael V. Smith

MICHAEL V. SMITH has published six previous books, which include three collections of poetry, a memoir, and two novels. Also an award-winning filmmaker, drag queen, and professor, Smith teaches at UBC Okanagan, in Kelowna, BC, where he lives with his brilliant husband.


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“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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Dimensions:

96 Pages
8.75in * 5.75in * .32in
250.00gr
.40lb

Published:

October 12, 2023

Publisher:

Book*hug Press

ISBN:

9781771668507

Book Subjects:

POETRY / LGBTQ+

Language:

eng

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