Fire Island Ian Ferguson a story that needs to

a story that needs to be told and understood by all of us

Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs

these poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors

sheltering and nourishing countless species of birds

*The limited deluxe edition will come with designed edges

Fire Island Ian Ferguson a story that needs to[A] concise, meticulously researched, century spanning chronicle of queer life on Fire Island captures, with a plain spoken yet lyric touch, the locale's power to stun and shame, to give pleasure and symbolize evanescence. Wayne Koestenbaum, New York Times Book Review Fire Island, a thin strip of beach off the Long Island coast, has long been a vital space in the queer history of America. Both utopian and exclusionary, healing and destructive, the