ISBN: 978-1-949099-20-1
23 pages
In Philip Kenner’s debut chapbook, he has crafted a series of interconnected sonnets so full of astonishment, wonder, & joy, they’ll take your breath away. Here, queerness is the norm and beauty is the expectation. "I rage against easy, and I come out clean," he writes. BOYSTUFF will leave your jaw wide & your heart full.
Sample poem from BOYSTUFF:
And fear will fail. To turn you from the door,
I have to make a room worth turning towards,
or maybe that’s the story that I need
to write another sonnet. When I’m done
with stroking out the morning, there I reach
for words to stick you with, a plastic form
to hold the gluey paper in a shape.
I’m still a boy and so are you, and stuff
falls out our mouths in rapid streams of lines
from movies, shows, and clips that raised us when
the internet took on its tender role
as parent number three. It slipped us drugs
and said that’s it’s okay as long as we
“just do it in the house where I can see.”