Georgetown Peabody Library

All the gay saints, Kayleb Rae Candrilli

eng

Includes bibliographical references

portraits

no index present

poetry

All the gay saints

bibliography

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Kayleb Rae Candrilli

Whiting Award winner Kayleb Rae Candrilli's second full-length book, ALL THE GAY SAINTS, is a collection of trans joy and resilience. Focused on love, partnership, and cultivating the landscape of one's own body, ALL THE GAY SAINTS seeks happiness in a world saturated with transphobia and marred by climate change. And though this world is finite, these poems want you to live forever. They will unbarb your body if you let them

When I Transition Will I Lose My Taste for the Storm? -- On Wanting Top Surgery in the Fascist Regime -- When Face to Face with Fascism -- My Shadow Looks More like a Man than I Do -- Sinners Must Live with What Their Sins Sow -- There is a Point at Which I Tire of My Own Fear -- My Body is Constantly Conjuring a Tempest -- On Trespassing -- The Once Girl Hunts to Feed -- On Harvesting Oneself -- Funeral for a Girl Who Grew up in the Woods -- If the Water Weren't so Deep, Narcissus Might Not Have Drowned -- Comforting My Trans Self through the Night -- Two Queers Walking the Borderline Between -- Elegy for the Undead -- Making the Desert Wet -- Drought Becomes Me -- Poem with No Water at All -- On Attempting to Clear the Air -- I Wish All Children Could Touch the Sky at Least Once -- Fourth of July and Trans on the Brooklyn Side -- On First Meeting My Future Husband-Wife -- 1081 Nautical Miles and I Want to Ask You -- When Vesuvius Erupts Again I'll Cool My Tongue -- Love Poem Written for the Last Swampland -- When the Sissies Make Love to Every Cardinal Direction -- Cleopatra Came out as Queer But the World Was Not Quite Ready -- When Cleopatra Comes Back From the Dead -- If Juliet and Juliet Change Their Names -- I Imagine Juliet and Snow White Would Make a Beautiful -- Poem in Which I Dream Share with My Future Husband-Wife -- Someday I'll Love Myself See Through -- A Limbo Moon above // You Will Fall in Limbo Love -- Our Root System is a Tangle of Pipecleaners -- My Horoscope is My Future Husband's Horoscope -- My Future Husband-Wife and I Make a Blood Pact -- Love Poem with a Lack of Conception -- Thoughts on Romance as the Heat Index Rises -- Notes toward Top Surgery and the Impending Death -- A Spell to Absolve Your Own Transness -- During My Top Surgery Consultation -- My Mother Believes in My Marriage and this Shows Me Her Heart -- Expressing My Feelings to My Future Husband-Wife -- In Bed with My Future Husband-Wife -- In Bed with my Future