In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781609386450)

With calm abandon, Rob Schlegel stands among the genderless trees to shake notions of masculinity and fatherhood. Schlegel incorporates the visionary into everyday life, inhabiting patterns of relation that do not rely on easy categories. Working from the premise that poetry is indistinguishable from the life of the poet, Schlegel considers how his relationship to the creative process is forever changed when he becomes something new to someone else. "The meaning I'm trying to protect is," Schlegel writes, "the heart is neither boy, nor girl." In the Tree Where the Double Sex Sleeps is a tender search for the mother in the father, the poet in the parent, the forest in the human.

Author: Rob Schlegel
ISBN-10: 1609386450
ISBN-13: 9781609386450
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2019
Pages: 72
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/22/2019 pg. 46