Bronze Arms: Poems Christian Theology finding the inescapable truths hiding

finding the inescapable truths hiding in plain sight layered over an ordinary life

As you age past 40

and other queerbodied individuals have been overlooked--and actively invisibilized--for far too long

and Glory's unbridled and all-consuming ambition

or a road map for using spirituality to transform the nature of rage into something else

Bronze Arms: Poems Christian Theology finding the inescapable truths hidingFollowing his captivating and popular A Hundred Lovers, Hofmann's new collection is a queer coming of age, tinged with myth: poems that bring us into a fever dream of antiquity and desire at its limits Recognizing the fragility of the body and soul in a world of threat, these startling poems stem from a central boyhood memory the author's near drowning in a swimming pool on Crete. The observant child was troubled that none of the statues he saw had