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In the Middle of a Better World: Poems

by Grant Chemidlin

Poems of love, identity, and belonging

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Poems of love, identity, and belonging

Grant Chemidlin’s collection brings gay love and queer identity into conversation with the need to belong and to be fully seen. Its poems explore desire, human connection, and the communities people inherit as well as those they build for themselves. The publisher frames the collection as both elegy and battle cry, while emphasizing joy in its engagement with love and community. Together, these subjects place personal identity alongside the bonds that shape a sense of home and connection.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in poetry centered on queer identity and gay love.
  • Readers seeking poems about belonging, desire, and human connection.
  • Readers interested in community, including both inherited and chosen ties.

Themes

Queer identityGay love and desireBelonging and visibilityChosen and inherited communityHuman connection

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Book overview

A poetry collection about gay love, belonging, and being fully seen.

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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