DODGING BULLIES by Charles Becker

Dodging Bullies details the complex cruelty of growing up gay.  These epic poems also share the surviving and thriving of one who has dodged the bullies .  We get to hear a survivor’s stories of finding of oneself, singing in joyous celebration, motherly love, acceptance, and erotic encounters. Charlie Becker‘s honesty is unbridled and what we need to hear. This is a collection not to be missed.

–Steven Reigns, A Quilt for David

Charlie Becker‘s poetry Dodging Bullies is a brilliant, passionate, painful, compelling work that breaks your heart and restoreth your soul. Each poem rummages through those delicate repressed memories, bravely extracting the rose-colored glasses from the nostalgia, presenting a clear view ocular journey of one’s past, influencing the present and future.

Dodging Bullies is captivating poetry that taps into our vulnerable, gracious, humanity allowing us to cry, laugh and examine our lives, gently, as we walk this earth.

Charlie Becker‘s Dodging Bullies is a masterpiece.

–Penelope Lowder