Full Description
Lambda Award-winning poet Remi Recchia's second full-length poetry collection chronicles the speaker's journey with alcoholism, gender identity, and faith. Weaving between drunkenness and grace, loss and desire, the book asks us what a man looks like and what he'll do when the lights go down. While Addiction Apocalypse is located in many places—including sports stadiums, bars, beaches, IHOP, France, and the Mid- and Southwest regions at large—at its basic, like all good poetry, it is located in the trembling, beating human heart.
Contents
Part I: FIND YOUR SAFEHOUSE
Dead Name
Sailor's Knot
Baptism Before I Grew Up, There Was a War
Gravedigger
Gifts
Paying for top surgery is like going to debtor's prison
Sinker
First
Ghazal for the Bumps on My Spine
Dear Hiring Committee
Are You Okay, Mike Flanagan?
Linked Haiku with Ex-Boyfriend & Tree Sap
Your Therapist Has Surfer Dude Energy
Tabernacle
from acorn to oak, or, after but not because of surviving the unsurvivable, i become a man
Remi with Ghost & Joan of Arc
Part II: HOW WILL WE GO ON LIVING
How Will We Go on Living
Part III: ADDICTION APOCALYPSE
Things I Can't Tell My Landlord
At a baseball game in ninety-degree weather, the man in front of me
On Learning of a Friend's Suicide While Waiting in Line at the Local Taco Bell
Triptych: To the People I Never Hit Drunk Driving
The Men at Home
Ninety Days
The Lights
Football Tailgate: Field Notes
There's nothing quite like taking a shot of bottom-shelf whiskey
mulberries
When We've Been Married Nearly a Year, My Wife and I Share a Toothbrush for the First Time
We're in the car on Main Street & it's dark
my brother died
Remi, in the Night
When the world ended,
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the Author
21st Century Poets
