Born to be an outsider because of a rare genetic disorder, Kallmann syndrome, Brian Brett lived an androgynous childhood of abuse and sexual harassment. In his teen years he slid into the waterfall of poetry, becoming an auto-didactic polymath, writing - as he says - "sideways" to the academic poetry of his times.
Though raised into manhood in the back of a bootlegger's truck, Brett, as the hometown outsider, took on the outside world, delving...
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