AFTER DENVER
Big Bruiser Dope Boy

One of Dennis Cooper’s Favorite Books of 2020

"Everybody knows Big Bruiser Dope Boy as a courageously original poet who can be both furious and tender in the same breath. But he's just as unforgettable as a writer of acidly lyrical ‘slabs’ of prose. After Denver, his new collection, is a smartly hilarious heartbreaker of a book." 

 -Gari Lutz

"Funny, sad, brutal, tender. An American original written by an American original."

- Bud Smith

"After Denver is not afraid, or maybe it’s afraid but honest, afraid but choosing to live through hell: exes who meet at the funeral of a shared lover; the haunting curve of a beautiful ass; how it feels to yearn unendingly. After Denver is the sunrise after a drug binge with a broken lover—a cathartic translation of those feelings of intensity we’ve come to sublimate in our earthly lives."

- Elle Nash

"A swift and bleeding book with space for dreams, poetry, and the sentimental longing for teenage ass; somehow, too, a manifesto on indulging one's life, its mundanities, as text."

- Christopher Zeischegg

"Although slim, I found the prose and poetry of After Denver to hit hard with the one-two punch of heartfelt honesty and rancor often missing in the work of Big Bruiser Dope Boy's peers, while at the same time reminding me of the crude graffiti scrawled by angry youths across every single city's streets. Reason enough to read again and again."

- Steve Anwyll

AFTER DENVER is a new collection of poetry and prose by Big Bruiser Dope Boy.

OUT NOW // OCTOBER 6, 2020

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

BBDB is the author of Foghorn Leghorn and Your First Real Boyfriend & Other Poems. After Denver, his next book, is forthcoming this fall from 11:11 Press. He is the founder/editor of Gay Death Trance.

ISBN: 978-1-948687-36-2 (ebook)

ISBN: 978-1-948687-22-5 (paperback)