Overview

Adam Falkner's first full-length collection offers a sharp and In a voice that Dr. Cornel West heralds as 'prophetic in bleak times,' Falkner departs from a more familiar coming out narrative to centre the stories of several dueling selves. Masquerading white boy. Child of an addict. Closeted varsity athlete. Grief-struck friend. Through snapshots of 'Willies' both tragic and humorous, merciless and humane, Falkner offers powerful new ways of understanding the intersectional linkage that binds queer shame to cultural appropriation.

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""...a prophetic voice in bleak times.""--Dr. Cornel West ""...the ways we devastate one another daily, but also the ways we might be opened into love.""--Aracelis Girmay

...the ways we devastate one another daily, but also the ways we might be opened into love. --Aracelis Girmay ...a prophetic voice in bleak times. --Dr. Cornel West

...a prophetic voice in bleak times. -- Dr. Cornel West ...the ways we devastate one another daily, but also the ways we might be opened into love. -- Aracelis Girmay

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Dr. Adam Falkner is an poet, educator and arts & culture strategist. He is the author of Adoption (Winner of the 2017 Diode Editions Chapbook Award) and The Willies (forthcoming from Button Poetry, 2020), and his work has appeared in a range of print and media spaces including on programming for HBO, NBC, NPR, BET, in the New York Times, and elsewhere. A former high school English teacher in New York City's public schools, Adam is the Founder and Executive Director of the pioneering diversity consulting initiative, the Dialogue Arts Project, and Special Projects Director for Urban Word NYC.

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