Chad Bennett
Sarabande Books
(Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry)
What we have is small
and strange. But true.
—from “Trick”
HOW IT BEGAN: The book emerged from the off-kilter personal experience of ending a long-term relationship and coming out as a gay man at a relatively late age. of the self in love, the self at its most radically capacious. And I was also trying to understand and to live within the damage—to the self, to others—one’s love inevitably causes.
