Book - Anybody: Poems, by Ari Banias

Paperback, 95 pages, 2016. Excellent pre-owned condition. No writing, no dog-ears, no rips. "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 our 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 implications of what it means to be a This instead of a That. Witty, tender, and original, these poems deconstruct the constructs that define our lives." "Banias was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Award for Poetry and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review and the Nation, among other publications. He teaches writing and works in the Bay Area."