num_pages: 112
description: An architecture equally poetry, fairy-tale, autobiography, and fiction, The Room Where I Was Born rebuilds the house of the lyric from fragments salvaged from experience and literature. Though the poems are borne out of the intersection of violence and sexuality, they also affirm the tenderness and compassion necessary to give consciousness and identity sufficient meaning. Its language the threshold over which the brutal crosses into the beautiful, this collection is an achievement of courage and vision.
language: English
title: The Room Where I Was Born
titlecomplete: The Room Where I Was Born (The Brittingham Prize in Poetry)
genres: Poetry, LGBT
ratings_count: 101
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: The Publishing Triangle Award
category: The Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
publisher: University of Wisconsin Press