The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, May 1st, 2004
The Room Where I Was Born
by Brian Teare
University of Wisconsin Press. 112 pages, $14.95
THE TITLE of Brian Teare's debut volume of poetry, The Room Where I Was Born, proves apt: it is indeed about origins, about confronting how the room, house, family, town, and finally trauma of our childhood can shape our relationship to self, language, and even our view of history.
Poetry is often said to "disturb"; Teare's poetry disturbs, not only in the usual sense of to "trouble" or to "break the tranquility of," but also in the sense that one can disturb a stationary object, say, a glass of wat...
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