Mann’s fondness for bears defies century, as he waxes equally eloquent about J.E.B. For those unfamiliar with Mann’s oeuvre, there are three things to remember:Īll three of these topics emerge repeatedly (as do others, of course), and not in isolation. Readers of Mann will know that he is no stranger to this bloody conflict: in 2012 he published Purgatory, a novel about a star-crossed romance between Privates Campbell and Conrad, soldiers for the Confederacy and the Union, respectively in 2014, he completed the story of their romance (and trek to West Virginia at war’s end) in Salvation, winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Romance. In time for the sesquicentennial of the ending of the American Civil War, Jeff Mann has given us Rebels, a volume of poetry inspired by those four bloody years, seen through a queer lens.
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