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Dear Dear

by Reuben Gelley Newman

Love, memory, and music in contemporary poetry

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    Winner of the 2025 Louise Bogan Award

    Winner of the 2025 Louise Bogan Award

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Love, memory, and music in contemporary poetry

In Dear Dear, queer love is placed in conversation with music, visual art, nature, and politics. References ranging from Bach to Mitski connect personal desire with questions of inheritance: how attention to ancestors might inform present-day struggles. The collection moves between playful sonnets and earnest narrative poems, with sound presented as a medium for self-expression and longing. Its subjects include grief, belonging, nostalgia, and the possibility of carrying memory forward without remaining fixed in the past.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in contemporary American poetry exploring queer love and belonging.
  • Those drawn to poems that engage with music, art, nature, and politics.
  • Readers interested in memory, ancestry, grief, and present-day struggles.

Themes

Queer love and desireMusic and self-expressionMemory and ancestryGrief and belongingArt, nature, and politics

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Book overview

Winner of the 2025 Louise Bogan Award, Reuben Gelley Newman's Dear Dear renders queer love through the lens of music, art, nature, and politics. Drawing on artists from Bach to Mitski, Gelley Newman flirts with nostalgia but refuses to dwell in the past, asking how remembering our ancestors can reinvigorate our present struggles. In these poems, sound becomes the language of desire and self-expression: "I want to do better / I want to be the husband of the song." Combining playful sonnets and earnest narratives, Dear Dear searches for belonging in our grief-stricken world.

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