Bruce Bromley – A limited edition book of lyric essays

The lyric essays in We Won’t Need Saving think about two viral scourges and their different, socially organized outcomes; about LGTBQ+ populations besieged by governmental policies enacted by tight-hearted leaders and the voters whose support makes those policies real; about growing up in a world that wants you to be disappeared or, at the least, insignificant. How can the unseen refuse their invisibility? This book reflects on that question and why its answers matter.

Bio

Bruce Bromley is the author of Guesting: Essays, Essay/Stories (Understory Books, 2022); The Life in the Sky Comes Down: Essays, Stories, Essay/Stories (Backlash Press, 2017), nominated for the 2018 Victoria & Albert Best Illustrated Book Award; and Making Figures: Reimagining Body, Sound, and Image in a World That Is Not for Us (Dalkey Archive Press, 2014). His poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in Out Magazine; Open Democracy; The Advocate; Rawhead Journal; Anti-Heroin Chic; Gargoyle Magazine; Fogged Clarity: An Arts Review; Environmental Philosophy; 3:AM Magazine; Cleaver Magazine; On the Seawall Magazine; One Hand Clapping; Vagabond City, and elsewhere. He has performed his music and poetry throughout the US and Europe. He is a 2027 Best of the Net Nominee; a 2013 Pushcart Prize Nominee; and a winner of New York University’s Golden Dozen Award for teaching excellence. He teaches writing at New York University.