Litany of Borders, by George C. Tidmore

Poetry, chapbook, 40 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Litany of Borders includes fifteen poems which map tentative intimacy and vulnerability across airports, bedrooms, rainstorms, and pastoral fields. George C. Tidmore traces fragile things—love and desire, childhood and growing up, flesh. Identity is unstable and tender, and relationships linger far past their fracture.

In Litany of Borders, the body becomes understood as a border. And as the poems turn inward to visceral and, at times, painful scenes, language and memory become borders, too. It’s an awkward, glorious crossing.

George C. Tidmore was born and raised in South Georgia. He is a recent graduate of Princeton, where he studied Creative Writing and German. His poems have been published in The MacGuffin, Acumen, and The #TWP Quarterly. Litany of Borders is his first chapbook.