Stegosaurus Moon - by Scott Beal (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Stegosaurus Moon begins as a book about heartbreak and divorce. Poem by poem, the speakers puzzle through how one love comes apart and how a new life comes together in its wake.

Through encounters with everything from dinosaurs and scorpionflies, Britney Spears and the Rock, birthdays and deaths, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Rupaul's Drag Race, the sequence builds into an examination of how the language of queer identity can be weaponized or can open space for more expansive ways to live and love. A private confessional pulled wide, this is a tender accounting of the poet peering into his mirror, which walks in step with the work of Ross Gay, Patricia Smith, and Matthew Olzmann.