Mangrove
Bill Hollands’s debut poetry collection Mangrove takes the reader on a journey from denial and shame to acceptance and love. In poems both narrative and lyric, comic and tragic, accessible and multilayered, Hollands explores what it was like to grow up gay in the late twentieth century, to deal with grief, and to create a family of one’s own. Throughout the collection Hollands weaves together the swampy landscape of Florida and the glittering escape of popular culture, all in a voice that is distinct, warm, poignant, and funny. At times surprising, sensual, and touching, these are poems to be savored individually and devoured all at once.
ISBN: 978-1-942004-87-5
$16.00
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About the Author
Bill Hollands was born and raised in Miami, Florida and holds degrees from Williams College and Cambridge University. He worked for the New York Public Library and Microsoft before becoming a high school English teacher. He returned to writing poetry after a long hiatus, and his recent poems have been featured on The Slowdown podcast and in such journals as New Ohio Review, The Adroit Journal, Boulevard, The Greensboro Review, Poetry Northwest, Plume, Rattle, DIAGRAM, The Southern Review, Smartish Pace, North American Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Gigantic Sequins. A multiple Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee, he has been a finalist for North American Review’s James Hearst Poetry Prize, Sycamore Review’s Wabash Prize in Poetry, Smartish Pace’s Erskine J. Poetry Prize, and New Ohio Review’s NORward Prize, among others. He lives in Seattle with his husband and their son. Find him at https://billhollandspoetry.com/ and on X/Twitter @bill_hollands.