Intimacies in Borrowed Light: poems Format:Paperback and House Fire is a

and House Fire is a debut collection from a literary voice gone far too soon

The only thing worse than fake marrying a woman for a job is falling in love with her

and if they don't have self-respect yet

" Writer Christopher Isherwood was more to the point: he called Denny "the most expensive male prostitute in the world

undeniable feelings begin to develop

Intimacies in Borrowed Light: poems Format:Paperback and House Fire is aIntimacies in Borrowed Light: Poems is Darius Stewart's first book length collection of poems drawn from his three previous chapbooks in addition to new poems not collected in those volumes. The result is a book that is more than the sum of its parts, but one that coalesces around themes of love, addiction, violence, sexual identity, and the corporeal body to betray the intimate moments that illuminate, especially, Black gay male experiences.