Courtney Stanton

Patience (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"What does it mean to care for strangers when the world is on fire?"

Queer trans poet and former EMT Courtney Stanton (Schatzi) turns the ambulance bay into a confessional in Patience, a collection of free verse written during the peak of COVID-19. These poemsequal parts dark humor, lyrical rage, and tender witnesspull back the curtain on emergency work in a collapsing system:

• EMT Diaries: Bleach-stained uniforms, last drives with the dying, and the surreal poetry of gas station snacks eaten between calls.
• Pandemic Ghosts: Overflow tents, "contaminated" birthdays, and the dread of bringing the virus home to a husband's open arms.
• Queer Resilience: Survival as rebellion, from lockdown isolation to the quiet euphoria of a makeout offer tucked into the copyright page.

Stanton's writing thrums with the rhythm of sirens and sleeplessness. In First Call, a young man's vomit becomes "futile... spray and splay of last hours." In The Freedom to Think You're About to Die All Day Every Day, paranoia crescendos into a breathless mantra: "I was free I was free I was free." Yet amid the chaos, glimmers of hope persista goddaughter's scar, a stranger's hand clasped in an ambulance, the defiant act of "making little lists" in a world unraveling.

Perfect for readers who:

• Crave pandemic art that's gritty, not sentimental
• Adore Zack Graham's Crisis Actor or Franny Choi's Soft Science
• Work(ed) in healthcare/EMS and need catharsis
• Seek LGBTQ+ voices redefining "survival poetry"

Praise for Courtney's work:

• "A tour de force of emergency and intimacy." Ross White, author of How We Came Upon the Colony
• "Stanton's poems are suturessharp, necessary, and startlingly tender." Nozlee Samadzadeh-Hadidi, editor

Includes haunting floral illustrations by Ellen Wilde and a candid author bio.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Courtney Stanton
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798223319207
• Artikelnr.: 69684734

Autorenporträt

Courtney Stanton is an extravagantly queer trans writer and actor in Portland, OR. His writing has previously appeared in Buzzfeed, Jezebel, Wired, and more quote-tweets than he would prefer. He's previously published three poetry chapbooks: The Goodbye Game, Patience, and Schatzi. He blogs with ever-increasing enthusiasm at superopinionated.com.