Swollening by Jason Purcell Michele Hutchison James reminds us that he

James reminds us that he is not only a poet of effortless wit and lyric accomplishment: he is also an immensely wise one

There is connection with a much-loved father

"Stray" is a book about strays - human and animal - and about straying

and yet is not so simply summed

Swollening by Jason Purcell Michele Hutchison James reminds us that heA tender debut poetry collection that examines the queer, sick body as a reaction to an ill world and asks it how to move on toward hope. Jason Purcell's debut collection of poems rests at the intersection of queerness and illness, staking a place for the queer body that has been made sick through living in this world. Part poetic experiment and part memoir, Swollening attempts to diagnose what has been undiagnosable, tracing an uneven path from a