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A Queer History of the United States

Listen, Kid Utopian Ideology and charged giant waves inListen, Kid gathers sixteen years of Bryan Borland's poetry into one sweeping, intimate, and fiercely human collection. Moving across love, lust, faith, grief, queer boyhood, marriage, family lineage, and the ghosts that shape a life, these poems trace the evolution of a Southern gay poet who refuses to look away from the hard things and refuses to write without tenderness. Borland's work spans the mythic and the personal: altar boys and backseat