As a follow-up to last episode on Aubades with John Donne, I'll be featuring a modern Aubade, \"aubade beginning in handcuffs\", to show how contemporary poets like torrin a. greathouse press the Aubade form to be even steamier -- and yet much more tender and vulnerable -- than Donne's.
Visit torrin a greathouse's website or buy their latest collection, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed, 2020)
Content warning: Artistic use of homophobic pejoratives; sexual subject matter.
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