Why I Was Late

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Publication Year:
2021

ISBN-13: 9781771315586

<p><b>With kitchen-table candour and empathy, Charlie Petch's debut collection of poems offers witness to a decades-long trans/personal coming of age, finding heroes in unexpected places.</b> </p> <p><i>Why I Was Late </i>fuses text with performance, bringing a transmasculine wisdom, humour, and experience to bear upon tailgates, spaceships, and wrestling rings. Fierce, tender, convention re-inventing&#8212;Petch works hard. And whether it's as a film union lighting technician, a hospital bed allocator, a Toronto hot dog vendor, or a performer/player of the musical saw, the work is survival. Heroes are found in unexpected places, elevated by both large and small gestures of kindness, accountability and acceptance. No subject&#8212;grief, disability, kink, sexuality, gender politics, violence&#8212;is off limits.</p> <p>A poet so good at drag they had everyone convinced that they were a woman for the first forty years of their life, Petch has somehow brought the stage and its attendant thrills into the book. Better late than. And better.</p> <p>&#34;Charlie Petch's <i>Why I Was Late </i>is a poetic debut with the wisdom of a sage and the emotional range of an expert comedian. &#8230; Do yourself a favor and read this book. This is a master at work.&#34;&#8212;Kai Cheng Thom, author of <i>I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World</i> </p><p><b>Winner of the 2022 ReLit Award for Poetry</b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b>With kitchen-table candour and empathy, Charlie Petch's debut collection of poems offers witness to a decades-long trans/personal coming of age, finding heroes in unexpected places.</b> </p> <p><i>Why I Was Late </i>fuses text with performance, bringing a transmasculine wisdom, humour, and experience to bear upon tailgates, spaceships, and wrestling rings. Fierce, tender, convention re-inventing&#8212;Petch works hard. And whether it's as a film union lighting technician, a hospital bed allocator, a Toronto hot dog vendor, or a performer/player of the musical saw, the work is survival. Heroes are found in unexpected places, elevated by both large and small gestures of kindness, accountability and acceptance. No subject&#8212;grief, disability, kink, sexuality, gender politics, violence&#8212;is off limits.</p> <p>A poet so good at drag they had everyone convinced that they were a woman for the first forty years of their life, Petch has somehow brought the stage and its attendant thrills into the book. Better late than. And better.</p> <p>&#34;Charlie Petch's <i>Why I Was Late </i>is a poetic debut with the wisdom of a sage and the emotional range of an expert comedian. &#8230; Do yourself a favor and read this book. This is a master at work.&#34;&#8212;Kai Cheng Thom, author of <i>I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World</i> </p>