Belated Bris of the Brainsick Product Form:Paperback / softback Rader has quickly gone from

Rader has quickly gone from being a poet to watch to one of the poets to watch

but as a complex and fully realized verbal world

especially for a closeted gay athlete

Other Poems is a fine assortment

a regressive regime rules with absolute power

Belated Bris of the Brainsick Product Form:Paperback / softback Rader has quickly gone fromDescription Belated Bris of the Brainsick traces 1) a belated and in some ways violent revelation about ones ancestry and ones past, 2) a resultant mental breakdown and 3) the pursuit of a new life with someone else who lives with mental illness. These events and the styles in which they are told are inflected by queer, transgender and disabled perspectives and aesthetics. If there is a narrative arc to the collection, it is not the usual one of