Boy with Flowers

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Winner of the 2009 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. “Of camouflage, of appearance versus reality, of that darkness out of whichwe hope to draw forth a self we can recognize as our own–these areamong the concerns of these beautifully eerie poems that over and overpurport to navigate one space even as they carry us to spaces the poemsthemselves seem startled to have arrived at.”–Carl Phillips “Shipley has invented an entirely new poetic consciousness. There is, I’m certain, no end to the flowers and beasts it will find.”–Donald Revell