Rara Avis
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Rara Avis

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Rara Avis

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Regally bearing its Latin title, Rara Avis captures in sparse, moving verse both the splendor and the loneliness of what it means to be exceptional — a rarified specimen, a strange bird. A son, a husband, and now a father, seasoned poet Blas Falconer explores the relationships among men — between peers, lovers, parents and children — to consider and question existing models of authority and power. Falconer's lucid but feeling gaze reveals social complexities with searing and graceful imagery, asking what it means to live outside the heteronormative experience while existing as a man, simultaneously a casualty and a participant in the project of masculinity. 

These poems carefully delineate the casual cruelties of queer youth and the beautiful and bitter revelations of adulthood. The wisdom propelling Rara Avis is the knowledge that we are each of us that rare bird; we share our singularity. Everyone has a pancreas, but only one organ matters when Falconer learns his father is afflicted. Alchemized by love, one thing, unlike any other, becomes all things. "All day, everything, / no matter how / small, makes me // think of it" 
 The bee / crawling in / blossoms // scattered on / the glass/tabletop. The sound of // a pitcher fill- / ing slowly / with water." 

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Publisher
Four Way Books
Year
2024
ISBN
9781961897038
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Rara Avis
  7. Pancreas
  8. A faded picture of our father and
  9. Providence
  10. Qué Significa
  11. Nights I lay in bed, the drunks below
  12. A Theory on Happiness
  13. Kindness
  14. Son
  15. Long Gone
  16. Reconciliation, back then, meant
  17. For a Spell
  18. On Parting
  19. Forgiven
  20. On what has become of his body
  21. Before surgery, I remember
  22. My Son Wants to Know Who His Biological Father Is
  23. Heredity
  24. Fatherland
  25. Figura Serpentinata
  26. Impressionism
  27. Where It Hurts
  28. Legacy
  29. Like a Prize, Like a Black Pearl
  30. Strata
  31. In the book we are reading together,
  32. The Conversion
  33. Ten Years Before I Met You
  34. Anniversary
  35. The Good Guy
  36. The Hummingbird
  37. Notes
  38. Acknowledgments
  39. About the Author