Boyish: Poems - Paperback

by Brody Parrish Craig (Author)

The poems in Boyish reveal a reconciliation of southern and queer identities, following the poet from a Louisiana Baptist upbringing into transgender liberation. With a sense of rebellion and the revival of the hollered voice, this is an urgent narrative propelled by the necessity of upheaval, imagining what happens when we break through barriers of systemic violence and communal oppression to reconsider what could be. Boyish looks back at the status quo in order to move beyond, into a dream of a nonbinary utopia. A reckoning, this collection brings the reader along for revolution-a deep belief in possibility.

Each page builds tension that then shatters, bringing us into the interior of a story. Brody Parrish Craig invites us to carve out a space and to find ourselves carried over the gravel along the creek. Moving through the subconscious and embodied desire, these poems are rich with formal play, twisting language in dense sonnets. Landscapes of the city's dystopia meet the queer pastoral, where conservation often means knowing what must be burned down.

Author Biography

Brody Parrish Craig, originally from Louisiana, is a poet and tranarchist who currently lives in the Ozarks. They are an educator and creator of TWANG, a regional creative project for trans and gender nonconforming folks in the South and Midwestern United States. Craig's poetry has appeared in TYPO, EOAGH, Gigantic Sequins, and Crab Fat Magazine, among others.