Anybody: Poems

?ri Banias is one of the best living poets, and this book in your hands is our proof. Anybody is the courage of a poet who trusts the strength of poetry to make room in our world for everybody.??AConrad In Anybody, Ari Banias takes up questions of recognition and belonging: how boundaries are drawn and managed, the ways he and she, us and them, here and elsewhere are kept separate, and at what cost identities and selves are forged. Moving through iconic and imagined landscapes, Anybody confronts the strangeness of being alive and of being a restlessly gendered, queer, emotive body. Wherever the poet turns?he cruising spaces of Fire Island, a city lake, a Greek island, a bodega-turned-coffee-shop?e finds the charge of boundedness and signification, the implications of what it means to be a this instead of a that. Witty, tender, and original, these poems pierce the constructs that define our lives.

Author: Ari Banias

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Publication Date: Mar 20, 2018

Number of Pages: 112 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback/Poetry

ISBN-10: 0393355446

ISBN-13: 9780393355444