Poem Bitten by a Man Orides Fontela and sharp observations of the

and sharp observations of the world

reimagining the possibilities of writing in our time and the complicated business of how and why writers devote their lives to their craft

and includes poems that have become increasingly hard to find and many published here for the first time

local politics

'"-- Mónica de la Torre

Poem Bitten by a Man Orides Fontela and sharp observations of theBrian Teare Collaged from journals and notebooks kept during a period of chronic illness, economic precarity, and heartbreak, Poem Bitten by a Man captures crisis by cutting up the record of a queer life lived in devotion to poetry and visual art. A medical emergency, a road trip, a breakup, and a paean to the power of creative processPoem Bitten by a Man is for everyone who has tried against the odds to make a life in art, whether they succeeded or