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45 Thought Crimes: New Writing
45 Thought Crimes conveys a lineage of resistance and places the reader squarely in the driver's seat of their own destiny. During the Reagan and Bush years, author Lynn Breedlove tried to ignore the political climate to focus on his own self destruction. When that didn’t work, he got sober and committed his life to art. After publishing his first two books and spending a career on tour, life took an unexpected turn. Breedlove spent the next decade caring and grieving for his mother, and founding / running a nonprofit to serve his LGBT community. But when the world threatens to end, the only moment that matters becomes now. Breedlove began writing this book the morning after the 2016 election, at the dawn of the coup. Newly in love and acutely aware of what was at stake, he questioned and confirmed life lessons learned, with Prince, Bowie, Leonard Cohen, and his ancestors as muses.
- GenresPoetry
96 pages, Paperback
Published April 30, 2019
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April 8, 2019
I was asked to blurb this book and here's what I said:
"Lynnee Breedlove's poetry is a psychic channel tuned into the signal of our times; in turn incantatory, angry, and euphoric. 45 Thought Crimes canonizes queer lives in urgent stream-of-consciousness prose poems and verse. From this starfish-like sensory response to the crisis of Earth, Breedlove's hopeful, hilarious, gutting poetry bounds from the page like prayer. These poems are balm to the fractured and constant input of the end times."
"Lynnee Breedlove's poetry is a psychic channel tuned into the signal of our times; in turn incantatory, angry, and euphoric. 45 Thought Crimes canonizes queer lives in urgent stream-of-consciousness prose poems and verse. From this starfish-like sensory response to the crisis of Earth, Breedlove's hopeful, hilarious, gutting poetry bounds from the page like prayer. These poems are balm to the fractured and constant input of the end times."
April 2, 2019
Lynn Breedlove is a queer punk icon and reading this book is like spending an afternoon inside his head. It's fascinating, heartbreaking, poetic, right, and good.
November 5, 2019
Lynn Breedloves' latest book addresses themes around the effects of genocide, being from a blended family, Standing Rock, and wrestling with identity.
It also celebrates co-conspirators, new love, anarchy, Indiginy, survival and resistance.
An important read during a particularly turblent time in the US.
Get a copy now!
It also celebrates co-conspirators, new love, anarchy, Indiginy, survival and resistance.
An important read during a particularly turblent time in the US.
Get a copy now!
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews