Sore :: Eros

by Brian Teare

Innovative and critically-minded, Brian Teare's poems and lyric essays in Sore Eros brim with ardor and "To look at you is never / intelligent skin thinking / deeper." A former NEA Fellow, Teare is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the American Antiquarian Society. He is the author of four full-length books--The Room Where I Was Born, Sight Map, the Lambda-Award-winning Pleasure, and Companion Grasses.

Genres: Poetry

Unknown Binding

First published February 28, 2013

About the author

A former National Endowment for the Arts fellow, Brian Teare is the recipient of poetry fellowships from the Pew Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the American Antiquarian Society, the Fund for Poetry, and the Headlands Center for the Arts. He is the author of The Room Where I Was Born, Sight Map, the Lambda-award winning Pleasure, the Kingsley Tufts finalist Companion Grasses, The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven, and National Book Award longlisted Doomstead Days. After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay area, and eight years in Philadelphia, he is an Associate Professor at University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books.

Reviews

[Molly · Rating 4 out of 5]

"...lavender is most fragrant when crushed, a poem is broken language, lines characteristically riddled with silences. Inevitably, he’d talk in the nervous way a page of prose has of being voluble, over-full. I remember waiting for him to be white space, the place where the line breaks to let in what isn’t finished, what might never finish making sense."

[Simeon Berry · Rating 4 out of 5]

Micro-blurb: a stunning lexicon of the lover's body, a syncretic, verbal anatomy.