The Spectral Wilderness
Oliver Bendorf | Filed under: Poetry, Wick First BookWinner of the 2013 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
Mark Doty, Judge
“It’s a joy. . .to come nearer to a realm of experience little explored in American poetry, the lives of those who are engaged in the complex project of transforming their own gender… Oliver Bendorf writes from a paradoxical, new-world position: the adult voice of a man who has just appeared in the world. A man emergent, a man in love, alive in the fluid instability of any category.”
—Mark Doty, from the Foreword