My Life as Adam

My Life as Adam, by three-time Pushcart-nominated poet Bryan Borland, is collection of 70 coming-of-age poems that struggle with the primary dueling forces in the southern United States - family, sexuality, and religion. Among the poems included are "Introduction to Eve," "Flawed Families in Biblical Times," "The Book of David, " On Discovering a Childhood Friend is Gay," and "Levi" (a love letter to Levi Johnston). From Philip F. Clark's introduction: "[Borland] shows us a rogue's gallery of men, all captured in that flash of insight that is both a mirror and a door."  My Life as Adam is Bryan Borland's first book.