Find Me When You're Ready: Poems
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Curbstone Press
Find Me When You're Ready: Poems
$18.00
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A powerful debut and a lyric coming-of-age narrative that interrogates the myths we carry
In Find Me When You're Ready, Perry Janes traces a sweeping journey from Detroit to Los Angeles. As he leaves home and forges toward California, the speaker in these poems considers how we learn and mislearn ideas about manhood, confronts the aftershocks of childhood sexual abuse, and questions the human need for belonging. By embracing the touchstones of youth--movies, lore, graphic novels--these poems assert the speaker's defiant right to childhood even amid damage.
As the collection arcs toward adulthood, the speaker embodies a vision of healing that refuses easy binaries and embraces the joys of intimacy. Across each of its five acts, Perry Janes's debut collection is driven by an interest troubling our creation myths, asking who built them, why we carry them, and how we might set them aside.
Book Details
- Publisher:
- Curbstone Press
- ISBN:
- 9780810147645
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 104
- Authors:
- Perry Janes
- Published Date:
- 2024-09-15
- Language:
- English
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Who is a new voice in poetry that we need to check out? Someone with a debut book or recent release?
Perry Janes' debut collection, Find Me When You're Ready (Curbstone Press), is my latest obsession. The book tackles huge themes like childhood, memory, abuse and trauma, all while still offering a tonal exactness. I think that Janes navigates memory like a playground, and his ability to use discomfort as a tool in storytelling is unique and exciting without being overbearing. If you want to learn more about his latest collection, you can read my interview with him for Poetry Daily here.