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Mark Doty says of Brent Calderwood's debut collection of poetry, The God of Longing: The man who speaks in Brent Calderwood's poems longs for the affective, erotic and soulful bond between two men that we'd like love to be, yet he also understands that love occupies a fault zone, a territory of fracture and slippages. That's the rocky landscape of this book, but struggle is also a source of education, and Calderwood's poetic voice is increasingly tempered, not lacking hope but perhaps no longer believing in the easy magic love might once have seemed. Here an adult gay man looks at the stuff of a life with both tenderness and a clear, steady gaze.…mehr

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Mark Doty says of Brent Calderwood's debut collection of poetry, The God of Longing: The man who speaks in Brent Calderwood's poems longs for the affective, erotic and soulful bond between two men that we'd like love to be, yet he also understands that love occupies a fault zone, a territory of fracture and slippages. That's the rocky landscape of this book, but struggle is also a source of education, and Calderwood's poetic voice is increasingly tempered, not lacking hope but perhaps no longer believing in the easy magic love might once have seemed. Here an adult gay man looks at the stuff of a life with both tenderness and a clear, steady gaze.
Autorenporträt
Brent Calderwood is a Pushcart-nominated writer and editor. His essays and reviews have appeared in the Chicago-Sun Times, Out.com, The Durham-Chapel Hill Herald, The Hartford Courant, and elsewhere. He is Literary Editor for A&U Magazine and Associate Editor for LambdaLiterary.org. He is the author of the poetry collection THE GOD OF LONGING (2014), published by Sibling Rivalry Press.