Stegosaurus Moon

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Author_Scott Beal
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divorce
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forthcoming
gender and queerness
love poems
marriage
Michigan author
parenting queer children
personal transformation
poems
poetry collection
second chances

Product details

  • ISBN 9781938603785
  • Publication Date: 30 Jul 2026
  • Publisher: Dzanc Books
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Stegosaurus Moon explores heartbreak, divorce, parenthood and the discovery of new, often unexpected, ways forward. 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, deaths, pets, teenagers, 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 tender accounting of the poet peering into a mirror that morphs and warps with language that consistently astounds, these pieces walk in step with the work of Ross Gay, Jeffrey McDaniel, Denise Duhamel, and Jennifer L. Knox.

Scott Beal is the author of Wait 'Til You Have Real Problems (Dzanc Books, 2014) as well as the chapbook The Octopus (Gertrude Press, 2016).  He directs the Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts program at the University of Michigan and teaches in the Sweetland Center for Writing. He co-hosts the Skazat! monthly online poetry series and co-edits Public School Poetry.

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