The Boy Who Reads in the Trees

How do we survive the undeserved and incomprehensible violence of the world we are born into? Mohring shows us the childhood and coming of age of a queer boy growing up in rural America, then the man wrestling with the memories. Gritty, vivid, and unflinching, these poems also demonstrate an elegance of style, a formal perfection that reassure the reader that goodness and power can yet come from fear and cruelty.