Immortal Jellyfish by Alexander Perez

Immortal Jellyfish propels its readers through turbulent waters on a poetic voyage through unsettled seas of Queer life and identity. These are stinging, high-stakes poems that imagine Queer characters (gay boys and men, closeted lesbian mothers and wives) at the edge of death or madness, negotiating survival and possibly freedom. Alexander Perez gives us soulful poems employing a rich range of voices that engage lyricism and fantastic imagery to create vivid, colorful worlds. Intimate, familial, strange, furious, yearning, and hopeful, these poems guarantee readers a deeper understanding of the Queer experience and demonstrate the performative powers of poetry to unsilence the silenced.