In breeding season, Dante Fuoco details the pain and pleasure of faggotry. At once incisive & tender, these poems awaken a slutty psyche that exorcises shame from the body. When straight culture is indicted, & reproduction abandoned, what life can be bred in gay beds?
“With humor and irreverence as well as generous intimacy, breeding season is hot and ‘throbbing for spring.’ This collection leaves me with a feeling of incantatory self-celebration that recalls Williams’s ‘Danse Russe’—but more faggalicious. Fuoco’s poems are brave, and they make me hungry for life.”
— Joshua Garcia, author of Pentimento
“Fuoco wears form like a cock ring. There’s no time to waste in this slutty, divine one act, as they wield desire from Manhattan rooftops to Appalachian bars. These poems mourn, they beseech, they relish: ‘I’m your raw slab of meat / Won’t you salt me again .…’ Yes, this voice is my new favorite one night stand.”
— Taylor Portela, author of Tranny Muse