Telling the Beads: Sonnets

by M.S. Montgomery

“What is most remarkable to me about Montgomery’s sonnets is how insistent is the voice which explores its bisexuality. That voice is unequivocal.” (Jan Mitchell Sherrill)

“‘I am one whole person’ says the closeted man who resolves on taking his male lover to an office party. Telling the Beads — in which he allows us to read his — is M.S. Montgomery’s party, his developing “wholeness”, though he brings to it not one but many characters who constitute contemporary gay life — or prey upon it. Shrinking from neither the discripline of his form (the sonnet) nor the imperatives of his loving, M.S. Montgomery is the genuine article — a poet whose witness, whose fervor, and whose fortitude you may feel, as I do, that you cannot do without.” (Rudy Kikel)

INCLUSION CRITERIA

Poet M.S. Montgomery identifies as bisexual.