Anybody

Title: Anybody
Author: Ari Banias
ISBN: 9780393355444
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2018
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 112
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description:

In Anybody, Ari Banias takes up questions of recognition and belonging: how boundaries are drawn and managed, the ways he and she, us and them, here and elsewhere are kept separate, and at what cost identities and selves are forged. Moving through iconic and imagined landscapes, Anybody confronts the strangeness of being alive and of being a restlessly gendered, queer, emotive body. Wherever the poet turns--the cruising spaces of Fire Island, a city lake, a Greek island, a bodega-turned-coffee-shop--he finds the charge of boundedness and signification, the implications of what it means to be a this instead of a that. Witty, tender, and original, these poems pierce the constructs that define our lives.