Stop Lying by Aaron Smith

Stop Lying

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Stop Lying by Aaron Smith

University of Pittsburgh Press

Stop Lying

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Stop Lying is Aaron Smith's most personal and vulnerable work yet. Revolving around the death of the poet's mother and how Smith, a gay man, faces his upbringing where his sexuality was viewed as sinful and unnatural, these poems plumb the complexities of what families say and choose not to say. How does one grieve when a relationship will forever remain unresolved? What does it mean to both regret and not regret one's decisions? What if survival doesn't look like what we're told it should? This is the story of a poet pushing through present-day grief and the shame of the past to find the buried truths, the ones that are hardest to tell.

AFTERLIFE

Sometimes
the hardest part

is wondering
if my mother died

believing
I would go

to hell
Book Details
Publisher:
University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:
9780822967040
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
108
Authors:
Aaron Smith
Published Date:
2023-01-31
Language:
English
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About Aaron Smith

Aaron Smith publishes with the University of Pittsburgh Press. Its Pitt Poetry Series has carried all five of his collections: Blue on Blue Ground, Appetite, Primer, Stop Lying and The Book of Daniel. Blue on Blue Ground won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize in 2004 and appeared the following year. He has been a Lambda Literary Award finalist three times, for Appetite in 2013 and Primer in 2017 among them, and won the Frank O'Hara Prize in 2003 for the chapbook What's Required. Tilt / Beautiful People was written with Maureen Seaton and Denise Duhamel.

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