Ted Rees
DOG DAY ECONOMY
by Ted Rees
The poems of “Dog Day Scrolls” were first composed on large sheets of butcher paper with markers and tape. The poems in the section titled “Economy, a Reshaped Spit” were composed by writing with and around language that was physically cut and pasted from issues of The Economist and Wikipedia articles about mysterious disappearances suspected to be voluntary.
HAND ME THE LIMITS
by Ted Rees
Hand Me the Limits attacks the taboo subject of illness and healthcare in our American dystopia with the grit, style, and panache that only Ted Rees could muster. Through a hybrid mix of memoir, experimental lyric, and essay, this Lambda Literary Award finalist tells us the story of losing a part of himself to cancer—and plumbs the deep, existential conflicts and emotions that such a loss presents to a queer dissident.