Agape

Patrick Kindig's Alma Award-winning second poetry collection, Agape, is a frank meditation on queer love and desire. A kind of erotic Bildungsroman in verse, it charts the development of a single gay speaker from messy, promiscuous boy into married man. It also locates this narrative within a longer history of queer desire, one that ties lust to violence and pleasure to pain. Interlacing erotic poems, poems that explore gay domestic life, and poems that reimagine key figures from Western myth in (homo)erotic terms, the collection as a whole constitutes a timely exploration of what it means for a gay man to love and be loved.

Author: Patrick Kindig
Publisher: Saturnalia Books
Published: 10/15/2026
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.24lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.50w x 0.23d
ISBN13: 9781959195016
ISBN10: 1959195018
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American
- Poetry | LGBTQ+

About the Author
Patrick Kindig is the author of the poetry collection fascinations (Finishing Line Press 2025), the poetry chapbooks all the catholic gods (Seven Kitchens Press 2019) and Dry Spell (Porkbelly Press 2016), and the academic monograph Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernity (LSU Press 2022). His poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, the Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Colorado Review, the Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, and other journals. In 2020, he collaborated with classical saxophonist Derek Granger on The Quarantine Variations.

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