Purnell Brontez - Ten Bridges I've Burnt A Memoir In Verse - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: " This book is brutal and brutally honest but still perversely addictive because Brontez Purnell is a performer in the truest sense. Reading Ten Bridges I've Burnt I felt tucked - in with him along for the intimate ride and paused only once to write down a part I d been looking for my whole life." Miranda July From the beloved author of 100 Boyfriends a wrenching sexy and exhilaratingly energetic memoir in verse. In Ten Bridges I ve Burnt Brontez Purnell the bard of the underloved and overlooked turns his gaze inward. A storyteller with a musical eye for the absurdity of his own existence he is peerless in his ability to find the levity within the stormiest of crises. Here in his first collection of genre - defying verse Purnell reflects on his peripatetic life whose ups and downs have nothing on the turmoil within. The most high - risk homosexual behavior I engage in Purnell writes is simply existing. The thirty - eight autobiographical pieces pulsing in Ten Bridges I ve Burnt find Purnell at his no - holds - barred best. He remembers a vicious brawl he participated in at a poetry conference and reckons with packaging his trauma for TV writers rooms; wrestles with the curses and gifts passed down from generations of family members; and chronicles with breathless verve a list of hell - raising misadventures and sexcapades. Through it all he muses on everything from love and loneliness to capitalism and Blackness to jogging and the ethics of art always with unpredictable clarity and movement. With the same balance of wit and wisdom that made 100 Boyfriends a sensation Purnell unleashes another collection of boundary - pushing writing with Ten Bridges I ve Burnt a book as original and thrilling as the author himself.
Title: Ten Bridges I've Burnt A Memoir In Verse
Author(s): Purnell Brontez
Publisher: Mcd
Barcode: 9780374612696
Pages: 144 Pages
Publication Date: 2/13/2024
Category: Memoirs