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Sam Sax's bury it, winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, begins with poems written in response to the spate of highly publicized young gay suicides in the summer of 2010. What follows are raw and expertly crafted meditations on death, rituals of passage, translation, desire, diaspora, and personhood. What's at stake is survival itself and the archiving of a lived and lyric history. Laughlin Award judge Tyehimba Jess says "bury it is lit with imagery and purpose that surprises and jolts at every turn. Exuberant, wild, tightly knotted mesmerisms of discovery inhabit each poem in this seethe of hunger and sacred toll of toil. A vitalizing and necessary book of poems that dig hard and lift luminously." In this phenomenal second collection of poems, Sam Sax invites the reader to join him in his interrogation of the bridges we cross, the bridges we burn, and bridges we must leap from.

Winner of the 2017 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.

Wesleyan poetry

Will

ROPE. Bildungsroman

Ultrasound

New God of an Antique War

Buena Vista Park 2AM

Pentimento

Standards

Essay on Crying in Public

Bury

DRAW. Missing Persons

Bridges

Hydrophobia

Risk

MDMA

Meat

Synonyms For Raw

I Want So Desperately to Be Finished with Desire

STONE. Kaddish

TOLL. First Will & Testament

Silent Auction

Weather Underground

Diaspora

Worry

Treyf

Estate Planning

Controlled Burn

Impossible Drama

Naubade

Objectophile

Surveillance

SUSPENSION. Politics of Elegy

Poem about Water

Impermanence

Service

I.35

Butthole

Butt Plug

Application

Phonomania: A History of Noise

Gay Boys & the Bridges Who Love Them

Will.

Gays' writings > Poetry.

Suicide > Poetry.

Poetry.

Poetry.