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DADDY by Jake Byrne $23.95 CAD
8.5 X 5.75 Inches | Pages 128| Publication Date: October 15, 2024
About DADDY
If you reloop trauma enough, does it make a danceable rhythm?
If you get lost in physical sensation enough, does that make you free?
DADDY is a powerful look at patriarchy, intergenerational trauma, and queer desire that seeks an unravelling of systems of control to reclaim vulnerability. At once confessional, playful, and sonically meticulous, Byrne’s poems seek conversation with a voice in the mind that won’t quiet. Cruel father figures dissolve into leather-clad muscle daddies on popper-scented dancefloors; the pain of the past sows the seeds of a joyful exploration of queer desire.
Praise for DADDY:
“I thought i knew desire. I thought i knew raging at the world around; but Jake Byrne shows me the limits of my imagination and fantasy. DADDY is no abstraction. It is instead, the material cost of living a radical life.”
– Khashayar Mohammadi, author of Daffod*ls and Me, You, Then Snow
About the Author
Jake Byrne is the author of Celebrate Pride with Lockheed Martin (Wolsak & Wynn, 2023) and DADDY (Brick Books, 2024). In 2019, they won CV2‘s Foster Prize for poetry. They live in Toronto/tka:ronto.