An intimate, original, an profoundly generous act of immense courage. Thank you Jane Byers for letting readers into your life so we can more clearly understand our own. An insightful, big-hearted book full of parenting wisdom.”

-Angie Abdou, author of Home Ice: Reflections of a Reluctant Hockey Mom

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“Byers’ poems are an important reflection on the devastation of the AIDS crisis, the ‘veiled love and lament’ of the early gay rights movement, and the memories held by queer elders.”

— Leah Horlick, author of For Your Own Good and winner of the 2016 Dayne Ogilvie Prize

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“Jane Byers’ poems are an incendiary experience of language, inflaming mind, heart, and embodiment. It’s a stunning debut collection of poetry, deeply queer, beautiful, and expansive.”

—Shannon Webb-Campbell 2014 Critic-in-Residence, Canadian Women in the Literary Arts

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