Beforelight - Gellman, Matthew
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"Beforelight explores queer childhood as a site of rupture and queer coming-of-age as a process of both becoming and unbecoming. The speaker in these poems confronts the impacts of ruptured relationships and trauma on his nascent identity. Grounded, lyrical, and deeply psychological, these poems grapple with the fragility of our most formative relationships - familial, communal and ancestral - as the speaker searches for a communion with himself, and how not to "make a life out of pain.""--

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"Beforelight explores queer childhood as a site of rupture and queer coming-of-age as a process of both becoming and unbecoming. The speaker in these poems confronts the impacts of ruptured relationships and trauma on his nascent identity. Grounded, lyrical, and deeply psychological, these poems grapple with the fragility of our most formative relationships - familial, communal and ancestral - as the speaker searches for a communion with himself, and how not to "make a life out of pain.""--
Autorenporträt
Matthew Gellman is a 2022-2023 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. His poems have appeared in several literary journals. His chapbook, Night Logic , was selected by Denise Duhamel as the winner of the 2021 Snowbound Chapbook Prize and is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. His highly sought after manuscript of Beforelight, was a finalist for Tupelo Press’ Berkshire Prize, Four Way Books’ Larry Levis Prize, the Alice James Book Award, and BOA Editions’ A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Gellman holds an MFA from Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn NY.