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Borderland is a poetry collection by award-winning author Ross Victory. Borderland includes over 40 pieces, exploring themes of masculinity, race, bisexuality, and grief. Through narrative prose and free verse, Victory portrays himself as a son, student, teacher, and lover, showcasing joy, agony, and identity, enhanced with sprinkles of visceral desire. He challenges conformity, reimagining divine love and resilience at the crossroads of hetero- and homonormativity.
Victory invites readers into a rare perspective where borders are both defined and defied, using creative expression as protest and poetry as justice, giving voice to those navigating their own borderlands, creating space for more personal freedom.
The 'Borderland' is where I meet my false self and emerge as my highest Self, in ways that no other place can effect change. Yes, I am masculine externally, but then I have, and am, femininity and "the other" internally. I move as a changeling and a possibilitist as I travel through the 'Borderland.' My ethnicity is crucial in how I see the difficulty and the disparity of my bisexuality, in that I am not just despised, I am also erased by the gatekeepers of the constructs that manipulate everything. This book is resplendent with thunderously relating concepts of being a black bisexual man with a light sprinkling of eroticism (just for tantalising measure) and a whole lot of intersectional thoughts that character the making of superheroes.
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"The confusion, the anger, the self-doubt, and the love, the joy, attraction and reflection takes on you a journey.
As a bi man I felt seen and validated by the collection..."
NICK CAIRNS,
Poet and Author of 100 Small Poems