Ten Bridges I've Burnt: A 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 ...