The Spectral Wilderness

Winner of the 2013 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize
Mark Doty, Judge

2016 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry Finalist

"It's a joy…to come nearer to a realm of experience little explored in American poetry, the lives of those who are engaged in the complex project of transforming their own gender…Oliver Bendorf writes from a paradoxical, new-world position: the adult voice of a man who has just appeared in the world. A man emergent, a man in love, alive in the fluid instability of any category."
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