Love is always complicated. In the poems of Drug and Disease Free, Michael Broder ponders the further complexities of love in the context of HIV and AIDS. These include the pleasures of cruising and anonymous sex, the challenges of marriage and erotic power exchange, and the realities of blood, cum and other "proud, shameful mysteries." Broder's narrator is intimate and plainspoken even when formalist; wary but romantic; self-mocking and elegiac; and utterly open--even with "no lube"--to loving and being loved, and all the complications those entail.
--Arielle Greenberg
[Michael Broder's] Drug and Disease Free makes an important intervention in the canon of contemporary gay poetry, in which so much writing about HIV/AIDS has remained in the realm of elegy. Even as many of these poems find Broder grieving, he is not confined by his status or the pains he has suffered. Ultimately, the triumphant possibility he realizes in this book is that freedom can take innumerably more forms than previously believed. The example of Broder's poetry proves that even in the face of inconceivable loss, we are free to conceive of a world in which we can keep loving, writing and remembering.
--Jameson Fitzpatrick (from the Foreword)
Michael Broder's poems are sexy, fun and daring. Drug and Disease Free is a frisky poetry collection that is audacious and revelatory in a way both refreshing and uninhibited.
--Emanuel Xavier, author of Radiance
Michael Broder is the author of This Life Now (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2014), a finalist for the 2015 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. His poems have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies. He holds a BA from Columbia University, an MFA from New York University, and a PhD in Classics from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the founding publisher of Indolent Books and the creator of the HIV Here & Now Project. Broder lives in Brooklyn with his husband, the poet Jason Schneiderman, and a backyard colony of stray and feral cats.
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Michael Broder holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Columbia University, an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University, and a PhD in Classics from The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. His poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in BLOOM, Court Green, Columbia Poetry Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Classical World, and other journals. He has taught at City University of New York (Brooklyn College, Hunter College, Queens College, York College, and the Graduate Center), Montclair State University, and The University of South Carolina. THIS LIFE NOW (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2014) is his first collection.
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