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In
Anybody, Ari Banias takes up questions of recognition and belonging: how boundaries are drawn and managed, the ways
he and
she,
us and
them,
here and
elsewhere are kept separate, and at what cost identities and selves are forged. Moving through iconic and imagined landscapes,
Anybody confronts the strangeness of being alive and of being a restlessly gendered, queer, emotive body. Wherever the poet turns-the cruising spaces of Fire Island, a city lake, a Greek island, a bodega-turned-coffee-shop-he finds the charge of boundedness and signification, the implications of what it means to be a
this instead of a
that. Witty, tender, and original, these poems pierce the constructs that define our lives.
About the author
Ari Banias is the author of Anybody, a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the PEN Center USA Award for Poetry. His poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review and the Nation, among other publications. He lives in Oakland, California.
Summary
“Ari Banias is one of the best living poets, and this book in your hands is our proof. Anybody is the courage of a poet who trusts the strength of poetry to make room in our world for everybody.” —CAConrad
