Kayleb Rae Candrilli is a 2019 Whiting Award Winner in Poetry and the author of Water I Won't Touch, Copper Canyon Press 2021, All the Gay Saints, Saturnalia 2020, and What Runs Over, YesYes Books 2017.

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Other poems on the web by Kayleb Rae Candrilli:
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"You've Heard This Before, The Only Way Out is Through."
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Three poems
Three poems
"On Traveling Together"
Three poems
"Transgender Heroic: All This Ridiculous Flesh"

Kayleb Rae Candrilli's Website.

About All the Gay Saints:

"All the Gay Saints has a lexicon all its own, one that reveals a devastating and beautiful geography of the body and its futurity. In lines such as, 'Asperitas / is the wave that rises before the end / of something that looks most / like the world..' we are offered a new world, or at least the promise of its possibility. In this still-forming world, the body, in all its triumphs and losses, strangenesses and normalcies, in all the yet to be discovered and joyful states of neither, is fully present and visible. The emotional landscape of this process is reiterated as the natural world, as land, atmosphere, touch. 'Queer, what you have in your hair is all down feathers, dandelion stems, and / the ways in which you've saved me. When we take new names, we give each / other permission.' The new names in this book are ones you'll want to read aloud."
—Natalie Diaz