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and charged giant waves in Hawaii

and a growing majority of Japanese people believe that homosexuality should be an integral and open part of society

and a healer who's saved Drew's virtual skin more times than he can count

Taking the controversial pairing of "transgender" and "transracial" as his starting point

Others think she's "not brown enough" to fit in

Listen, Kid Utopian Ideology and charged giant waves inListen, Kid gathers sixteen years of Bryan Borland's poetry into one sweeping, intimate, and fiercely human collection. Moving across love, lust, faith, grief, queer boyhood, marriage, family lineage, and the ghosts that shape a life, these poems trace the evolution of a Southern gay poet who refuses to look away from the hard things and refuses to write without tenderness. Borland's work spans the mythic and the personal: altar boys and backseat