proxy

proxy by doyle, r erica. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780982338797.

Poetry. LGBT Studies. PROXY is an unrequited love story in prose poems, where the landscape of the beloved body becomes the windows of New York City, the deserts of North Africa, and the mangroves of the Caribbean. PROXY is a conversation with the calculus, plotting time and space against the infinite capacities of desire. "With swagger and appetite, the poems in R. Erica Doyles proxy reveal the costs of masking ones vulnerability. Like Arthur Rimbaud, Lucille Clifton, and Richard Siken, these poems suggest the struggle to be released from ones own depths is lifes greatest adventure. PROXY asks us to perform scenarios of love and loss as if we had no other choice. Because it is difficult to resist Doyles crisp and cannylanguage, the sum effect of this exercise is wonder."—Wendy S. Walters