Murder Stay Murder by Geoff Kagan-Trenchard SIGNED

MURDER STAY MURDER by Geoff Kagan-Trenchard Limited first edition pressing (SIGNED BY AUTHOR.) 115 pages in length. Independently published via Penmanship Press. "Murder Stay Murder" arrives not only with Trenchard's signature ability to weave the bleak and beautiful with unflinchingly honesty, but it also provides a peek behind the curtain of his writing process. Features 49 poems along with writing prompts to accompany each. Drawing from his more than 10 years of experience as a performer and educator, Kagan-Trenchard sifts through various portrayal of manhood, picking up and inspecting each like an anthropologist. The resultant poems leave classic tropes upended and fundamental assumptions shaken. A compelling, at times heartbreaking collection, "Murder Stay Murder" moves through the liminal spaces: between youth and adulthood, violence and tenderness, what it means to be "out" or "pass", holding still when the people right next to you might explode. "This collection of poems b