Love-In-Idleness

In the title poem, for example, the speaker's father has the boy scoop out decaying leaves from the home's gutters, which leads to the first of many redefinitions these speakers undergo at this hands of others - this time, his father's: Inserting such figures in this stage of the book...

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Published in:Indiana Review 2012, Vol.34 (1), p.140
Main Author: Case, Doug Paul
Format: Review
Language:English
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Case, Doug Paul
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Summary:In the title poem, for example, the speaker's father has the boy scoop out decaying leaves from the home's gutters, which leads to the first of many redefinitions these speakers undergo at this hands of others - this time, his father's: Inserting such figures in this stage of the book solidifies the legitimacy of the queer experience desperately sought by the book's first speakers, and leads us into the normalcy of the gay male relationship depicted in the final section. Here, in the concluding poems, the speaker has arrived at a place of comfort, a place of domestic bliss, even permitted the crushing, ordinary sadness of the damp feeling of your wet face against my shoulder after you tell me about him, and plead for me to stay.
ISSN:0738-386X