Love Songs for Boys is the first collection of poetry by Keone. This selection of sensual and dreamlike poetry is a love letter to boys and men in all their tenderness and brutality. Playing with the dual meaning of love letter as both a signifier of intimacy and destruction, Love Songs for Boys comes from a queer place where both masculine and feminine occupy physical and psychic space. These poignant poems offer up a shifting lens on what it means to be in the male body while betraying the definition of what a man ought to be. There are elegies to friends, partners and lovers where loss is as much the marker of love as its displacer. Awareness of sexuality and the difference of that state evolves alongside trauma and abandonment. Queerness is here as both sexuality and perspective and the poems celebrate the outsider and heretic as well as the ordinary they walk within. By turns raw and earthy, playful and evocative, Love Songs for Boys is an exploration of the nature of love, loss and the unending dance between the two.
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