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Prelude to Bruise

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Prelude to Bruise
First edition cover
AuthorSaeed Jones
Cover artistSyreeta McFadden (photo)[1]
Linda Koutsky (design)[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry
PublisherCoffee House Press
Publication date
September 9, 2014
Media typePrint (paperback)
Pages124
Awards2015 Barbara Gittings Literature Award
2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry
ISBN978-1-56689-374-9
811/.6
LC ClassPS3610.O6279 P74 2014

Prelude to Bruise is a 2014 poetry collection by American author Saeed Jones, published by Coffee House Press on September 9, 2014.[2][3][4]

Contents

# Title
Anthracite
1 Insomniac
Closet of Red
The Blue Dress
Isaac, after Mount Moriah
Pretending to Drown
Boy in a Stolen Evening Gown
Boy at Edge of Woods
Terrible Boy
Daedalus, after Icarus
Boy in a Whalebone Corset
Boy Found inside a Wolf
Boy at Threshold
After the First Shot
Last Call
2 "Don't Let the Sun Set on You"
Prelude to a Bruise
Coyote Cry
Jasper, 1998
Lower Ninth
Drag
Kudzu
Beheaded Kingdom
Thralldom
Cruel Body
Thallium
He Thinks He Can Leave Me
3 Secondhand (Smoke)
Body & Kentucky Bourbon
Eclipse of My Third Life
Guilt
Sleeping Arrangement
Apologia
Ketamine & Company
Thralldom II
Skin Like Brick Dust
Kingdom of Trick, Kingdom of Drug
Blue Prelude
In Nashville
4 Highway 407
Meridian
Mercy
Mississippi Drowning
Casket Sharp
Dominion
The Fabulist
Room without a Ghost
Dirge
After Last Light
Hour between Dog & Wolf
Postapocalyptic Heartbeat
5 History, according to Boy
6 Last Portrait as Boy

Reception

Publishers Weekly praised the collection, writing, "Solid from start to finish, possessing amazing energy and focus, a bold new voice in poetry has announced itself."[5]

Writing for NPR, poet Amal El-Mohtar said, "There are too many exceptional poems here to single out, and not a single one that didn't at least impress me."[6]

Awards and nominations

It won the 2015 Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award[7] and the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry.[8] It was a finalist for the 2015 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry,[9] the 2014 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry,[10] and the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.[11]

References

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