Bones Washed with Wine

by Jeff Mann

A special collection of lyric intensity, including the 1999 Gival Press Poetry Award winning collection.

Genres: Poetry

80 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2003

About the author

Jeff Mann’s poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in many publications, including Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Laurel Review and The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide. He has published three award-winning poetry chapbooks, Bliss, Mountain Fireflies, and Flint Shards from Sussex; two full-length books of poetry, Bones Washed with Wine and On the Tongue; a collection of personal essays, Edge: Travels of an Appalachian Leather Bear; a book of poetry and memoir, Loving Mountains, Loving Men; and a short fiction volume, A History of Barbed Wire, which won a Lambda Literary Award. He teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Reviews

[Zuska · Rating 4 out of 5]

Intense poems on love and loss, with the attention to the natural world that is the hallmark of Mann's poetry. Oh, to see, really see, blossoms the way the poet does!
These poems also bear witness to the still sad truth that for men who love men that "Amidst rude and savage-minded men,/what is more dangerous than tenderness?"