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79th out of 104 books
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He Do The Gay Man In Different Voices
by
Stephen S. Mills (Goodreads Author)
Unable to accept complacency in suburban life, Stephen S. Mills transports himself to dank prison cells, international executions, and the minds of murderers that unravel through the kinky underbelly of America. He comes full-circle back to the bedroom of a young, gay couple whose everyday lives surprise us in a flawed and fascinating world. He Do the Gay Man in Different...more
Paperback, 94 pages
Published
March 15th 2012
by Sibling Rivalry Prss
(first published February 1st 2012)
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Jessie McCartney has said before that the first book a poet shares is often introspective and revolves around the life and times of the poet. Stephen Mills' "He Do the Gay Man in Difference Voices" lives up to this expectation but manages to push the envelope through both the mundane and exceptional experiences the LGBT community encounters day-to-day and year-to-year.
What I liked most about this chapbook are these very aspects of mundane and exceptional: They are the tools Mills uses to invite...more
What I liked most about this chapbook are these very aspects of mundane and exceptional: They are the tools Mills uses to invite...more
The power of great poetry lies in its ability to echo the complexities of human experience. It strives to employ language, a tool aimed to simplify, in order to achieve what the dictionary has failed to give us: the vast definition(s) of human experience. As the great Jack Gilbert once wrote: “Love, we say, God, we say, Rome and Michiko, we write, and the words Get it wrong.”
Unfortunately, Stephen S. Mills's first book He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices, falls short of that very important en...more
Unfortunately, Stephen S. Mills's first book He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices, falls short of that very important en...more
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The Challenging and Enormously Successful Poetry of Stephen S. Mills
Reading this collection of poems HE DO THE GAY MAN IN DIFFERENT VOICES serves to introduce many readers to the power of the young intensely talented Stephen S. Mills. His style of writing, visually, looking at the pages of his poems that tend to be quite long, appears more like pages from a scrapbook or notebook, so dense is the content while so accessible is his technique of placing his words/thoughts/experiences/fantasies befo...more
Reading this collection of poems HE DO THE GAY MAN IN DIFFERENT VOICES serves to introduce many readers to the power of the young intensely talented Stephen S. Mills. His style of writing, visually, looking at the pages of his poems that tend to be quite long, appears more like pages from a scrapbook or notebook, so dense is the content while so accessible is his technique of placing his words/thoughts/experiences/fantasies befo...more
While Mr. Mill's writing initially picqued my interest in one of the Assaracus journals, I was disappointed at his first full length release. I appreciate the topics he attempts to tackle, but as a whole, the book is extremely self-indulgent (reminding us time and time again how often Mr. Mills loves himself), it consistently makes incorrect presumptions about the reader, and ultimately fails in its handling and broad generalizations of race, gender, and sexuality. I hope that with a bit more li...more
He Do the Gay Man is Different Voices is definitely a collection worth talking about. The anger and fear is palpable in each poem, and as is his love for his partner. Not being a gay man myself, I was able to learn and empathize with fear and anger over hate crimes, especially, in a way I hadn't before. This collection brought to me an awareness of the culture around me that I hadn't had.
Truly fantastic. One of the best books I've read this year.
Stunning, breathtaking, unexpected. One to read over and over.
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Stephen S. Mills holds an MFA from Florida State University. His poems have appeared in The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, PANK Literary Magazine, The New York Quarterly, The Antioch Review, The Los Angeles Review, Knockout, Ganymede, Poetic Voices Without Borders 2, Assaracus, New Mexico Poetry Review, Mary, and others. He is also the winner of the 2008 Gival Press Oscar Wilde Poetry Award. Hi...more
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