PRAISE FOR UNCUT AMERICANS
“Uncut Americans by Joey Wańczyk is a book of finely wrought poems that exhibit a formal tautness on the verge of rupture, where the simultaneous allure and danger of formative queer experiences hum like high-voltage cables. With great lyric attention, Wańczyk presents a fractured bildungsroman of growing up gay in Indiana with poems that offer little in the way of comfort but provide veracity to the inherent disorientation of desire — "I want to ride him like a horse / into oblivion," he writes. Wańczyk's poems skillfully contend with what is remembered, what is misremembered, and what is suppressed.”
— William Ward Butler, poet laureate of Los Gatos, CA, co-editor-in-chief of Frozen Sea