Grant Chemidlin

"'He Felt Unwell (So He Wrote This)' is a collection of poems and illustrations that represents the mind's messiness, how one day we can feel steely and secure, and the very next, find ourselves crumbling to bits. It's a reminder that life is a ceaseless cycle. We will always go through times when we feel empty, when we must trudge back up the hill to fetch our pails, to fill our happy. And that's perfectly okay."--Amazon website.

He Felt Unwell (so He Wrote This)

How do you untangle the real you from the curated you? In this introspective yet whimsical collection, poet Grant Chemidlin takes readers into the thicket of self-discovery. What We Lost in the Swamp is a lush and vibrant collection of poems that examines the many manifestations of green: nature, inexperience, jealousy, burgeoning love, and exploring sexuality. It is a slow unfurling. It is a love letter to growth, to rediscovery, to finally learning how to speak the truth. These astonishing poems ask the reader: Who do you want to be in this world? How do you want to build a life? This is not a coming out. This is a coming in to one's truest self.

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What We Lost in the Swamp

Finalist for the 2020 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry Things We Lost In The Swamp is a lush and vibrant collection of poems that examines the many facets of green: nature, inexperience, jealousy, burgeoning love, and discovering sexuality as a gay man. It is a slow unfurling. It is a love letter to growth, to rediscovery, to finally learning how to unabashedly speak one's truest voice. These poems will make you laugh, will make you cry. They will envelop you-take you through your darkest forest, then lead you home.

Things We Lost In The Swamp

What do we risk by living our most authentic lives? More importantly, what do we gain? In the Middle of a Better World is a queer guide to love and identity, a collection both formally inventive and infused with a bright, shimmering imagination. Part elegy, part battle cry, this highly anticipated new collection by Grant Chemidlin is unabashedly joyous in its exploration of desire, human connection, and community—those we’re born into and those we build ourselves.

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