Lily Poetry Review
100 pages
January 4, 2026
A Brief History of My Sex Life examines the sexual history of a lifetime from a sexualized childhood to confused sexual awakening to the whys and hows of mature sexual and gender expression. Exploring the impacts of family and culture, and a late life recollection of early childhood sexual abuse, these poems unravel an emergent nonbinary and transmasculine gender identity. Its poems confront the difficult with clarity, humor, and vulnerability and find companionship in nature. As trans people are under attack by lawmakers who fail to understand their basic humanity, this is a timely and valuable collection.