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    A Boy in the City
    A Boy in the City
    A Boy in the City
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    A Boy in the City

    By S. Yarberry

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    In this debut collection of poetry, the obscure and mundane collide, a fricassee of movement, the cosmopolitan, and intimacy.

    A Boy in the City uses poems as pillars to interrupt and excavate an interiority that unfolds and interrogates grim thoughts and intimacy. Yarberry weaves a sexy, glitzy journey through their city, where the speaker can “pose” and “compose” in a “trans way, of course.” Clever in its playful allusions to Greek myths, William Blake, and other literary figures, A Boy in the City is a distinct work of joy and liberation that reckons with the language of gender and desire.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDeep Vellum Publishing
    Release dateJul 26, 2022
    ISBN9781646051793
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      A Boy in the City - S. Yarberry

      A Boy In The CityHalfPageTitlePageSpace

      Deep Vellum Publishing

      3000 Commerce St., Dallas,Texas 75226

      deepvellum.org · @deepvellum

      Deep Vellum is a 501c3 nonprofit literary arts organization

      founded in 2013 with the mission to bring

      the world into conversation through literature.

      Copyright © 2022 S. Yarberry

      First edition, 2022

      All rights reserved.

      ISBN: 978-1646051786

      Library Of Congress Control Number: 2022932157

      Cover design by Kayla E. | designaltar.org

      Typesetting by www.ineedabookinterior.com

      Printed in the United States of America

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      The History

      Lips, crash with lips inevitable

      City-Builders

      The Lovers

      CHAPTER

      Stage Directions

      Medusa

      Self-Portrait (Punching Ball)

      Of Figure and Field

      Corydon to Alexis

      CHAPTER

      Sphinx

      Automania

      Down Below

      The Cave

      The Wolves

      CHAPTER

      Requiem Circuit

      Icarus

      The Scholar

      Gesture Towards Immortality

      Terminal Theatre

      CHAPTER

      A cloak you cannot take off.

      Down Below

      Self-Portrait

      Cormorants

      Graphic

      CHAPTER

      Intimacy Abstract

      Emanation Song

      I despair! I disengage.

      Boyhood

      Letter

      CHAPTER

      Dirt

      Eminence

      The Orchard

      Untitled Nature Study

      Fantasy

      CHAPTER

      This place is called Beulah

      Two Children Threatened by a Nightingale

      And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur

      Island of Calypso

      CHAPTER

      Nostos

      Castles

      Anteroom

      CHAPTER

      Trans is Latin for across

      Notes

      Acknowledgments & Gratitude

      But of course, there is a movement—

      cum and fog—

          revolution without beginning. How does one achieve eternal bliss? By saying: Mr. Mr. in the plainest of language. I occur. A cat meows. I want the heart of a tree when it has been raining. I want a stupendous smugness, and the self— as gentle as concern—

      to dispense its terrible truth.

      Space

      I have sought for a joy without pain,

      For a solid without fluctuation.

      Why will you die, O Eternals?

      Why live in unquenchable burnings?

      —from The Book of Urizen by William Blake

      THE

      HISTORY

      In the midst of the night—

      you put your lips to the bare

      of my back.

      When your mouth is agape

      it’s the start to a cave,

      the shape of an opal—

      Inside your mouth

      lives something to say, though

      you don’t say it. We live this way.

      Your hand grabs

      at my thigh, my hip. You sleep

      and I wake—

      I think in the night, before

      the blankness takes back over:

      Lover this, lover that. Opulent

      gossip, circulates, through

      the institutional hallway.

      I see a crow: crow! I say.

      Nobody cares. Which is more

      than fine— there’s a note

      on my desk, reads: I’d steal a horse

      for this. For this? I think.

      Good God! Hazard Adams is

      droning on about Blake’s

      thoughtless hand being somehow

      mechanic— like the seasons,

      the planets. Can the universe

      be mechanic? It bothers me.

      Anyways, your

      thoughtless hand— brushes

      across my breast, the breast

      I hate. Except you don’t

      kill me in this poem— If I am

      the fly, then I survive. Survive?

      There’s something about me

      that is falling fast asleep.

      If the universe decides to take me—

      I hope it swallows

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