Patrick Milian
is a Seattle-based writer and teacher. He is the author of The Unquiet Country, from Entre Ríos Books.
Releases
The Unquiet Country
“With tender restraint and formal dexterity, Patrick Milian has built a world of language set to music, language tuned to a music of its own. This striking debut offers precise inquiries into history and aesthetics, surviving and suffering; above all, it claims fragility as strategy, performance, and a way through.” (Erin Marie Lynch, author of Removal Acts)
Undead Disco: Variations on a Theme
in Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing with the AIDS Crisis (ed. Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore)
“It is the achievement of the book Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore has assembled that each of its many writers, regardless of age or circumstance, takes grief and fear seriously, recognizes history, dreams of a better future, and offers models of love that are not solely models of death.” (from the Chicago Review of Books)
Pornographies
Chapbook from Greying Ghost
"Sex is not unlike a nuclear weapon; the fallout from both can be devastating and take years to untangle. But both are enjoyable to an extent; sex is, well, sex, albeit digital or fleshy, and, while I've never seen a mushroom cloud in real life, I'd imagine I'd be shocked and awed with the best of them. Pornographies is Patrick Milian's essay that explains these nuances through gritty and unfathomably brilliant lyrics. Leave your inhibitions on the floor." (from the publisher)