Rees, Ted: Hand Me the Limits

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Roof Books, paperback

Publication Date: April 1, 2024

Publisher Marketing:

A new collection from Lambda Literary Award finalist Ted Rees, combining poetry and essay in a defining groundbreaking new genre. Publisher Marketing: A new collection from Lambda Literary Award finalist Ted Rees, combining poetry and essay in a defining groundbreaking new genre.

HAND ME THE LIMITS attacks the taboo subject of illness and healthcare in our American dystopia with the grit, style, and panache that only Ted Rees could muster. Through a hybrid mix of memoir, experimental lyric, and essay, this Lambda Literary Award finalist tells us the story of losing a part of himself to cancer–and plumbs the deep, existential conflicts and emotions that such a loss presents to a queer dissident.

Rees has long been a sly prophet of doom, insisting that this infected world must change or perish. He carries the torch of David Wojnarowicz, damning the forces of hegemonic oppression which ambiently percolate through culture, ready to pierce us and strike us down at any moment. HAND ME THE LIMITS asks: what happens when you witness a loved one succumbing to disease? What happens when you, too, succumb to disease? You find yourself on the other side of reality, in a domain ignored and scorned by polite society, suffering loss of dignity on top of potential loss of life, limb, and hole.