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MICHAEL V. SMITH has published six previous books, which include three collections of poetry, a memoir, and two novels. Also an award-winning filmmaker, drag queen, and professor, Smith teaches at UBC Okanagan, in Kelowna, BC, where he lives with his brilliant husband.
"""Queers Like Me is a beautiful, funny, honest book. There were so many moments when I felt a loving kinship with Smith through queerness, through family, through home. Each page feels alive and so deeply human. This is a book to read and to be read through--a brilliant dive into belonging."" --Jordan Abel, Griffin Poetry Prize-winning author of Injun and NISHGA. ""A verse memoir from several perspectives of identity, Queers Like Me is a faceted lexicon of Smith's experience of grief, desire, alienation, aging, and happiness. A warm, witty-tragic tale told in lineated conversational intimacy, with lines like 'I'm a bit emotionally barren / with some singing and dancing / thrown in, ' this confessional/anti-confessional text feels like a friend you could talk to about anything."" --Sharon Thesen, author of The Wig-Maker ""Michael V. Smith is Canada's answer to Frank O'Hara. In poems at once charming in tone and yet devastating in subtext, rollicking in language and dignified in what is said as well as what remains unspoken, Queers Like Me explores the nature of family, place, and belonging from the perspective of a life lived on the artistic edge."" --George Murray, author of Problematica: New and Selected Poems"
