Author · Four Way Books · 2024
Rara Avis
Winner of the Thom Gunn Award ↗
A meditation on family, fatherhood, and the rare wonder of being. Rara Avis examines what it means to be a 'rare bird' — a queer father, a son, a man moving through grief and love with equal grace.
Praise
“Rara Avis's keenest ace is its clear-eyed focus on family care and dissonance and on the eureka of generational love and forgiveness. Falconer averts predictability and dwells (and even heals) in the kingdom of epiphanic memory, of nuance and caesura—poetry's kingdom.”
— Cyrus Cassells, author of Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch
“Falconer's tender and wise poems are gentle reminders that we move forward because we are called to those we love.”
— Oliver de la Paz, author of The Diaspora Sonnets
“Falconer's handling of boyhood, fathering, love, and masculinity in these pages is startling in its revelations and deeply necessary in its grief. I'll be thinking about this collection for years to come.”
— Sandra Beasley, author of Made to Explode
Poems from this book