{"id":3546,"date":"2020-02-11T01:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/?page_id=3546"},"modified":"2025-09-25T20:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T20:37:55","slug":"disappearing-boy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/?page_id=3546","title":{"rendered":"DISAPPEARING BOY"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3547\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 482px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/TMH-book-cover-Disappearing-Boy-LaTorre-3--scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3547\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/TMH-book-cover-Disappearing-Boy-LaTorre-3--scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/TMH-book-cover-Disappearing-Boy-LaTorre-3--scaled.jpg 1811w, https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/TMH-book-cover-Disappearing-Boy-LaTorre-3--scaled-300x424.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/TMH-book-cover-Disappearing-Boy-LaTorre-3--212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/TMH-book-cover-Disappearing-Boy-LaTorre-3--724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/TMH-book-cover-Disappearing-Boy-LaTorre-3--768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/TMH-book-cover-Disappearing-Boy-LaTorre-3--1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/TMH-book-cover-Disappearing-Boy-LaTorre-3--1449x2048.jpg 1449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">hello<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Candid in his courage and craft, Paul LaTorre\u2019s <em>Disappearing Boy<\/em> pulls apart the burning spaces of language and body where identity and desire struggle in wars. LaTorre writes, \u201cBoys become men \/ who vanish altogether\u201d to reveal, in poetry that soars and survives by uncanny reckoning, the unseen and unsayable acts through which masculinity is too often performed. These poems, both primal and contemporary in voice, pull back all artifice. These poems ask us not to look away from our own vanishing.\u00a0&#8211;Rachel Eliza Griffiths, author of <em>Mule and Pear<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>I love this chapbook. It hits hard, fast deep. A poem like \u201cDar<\/em>k Arts\u201d turns #MeToo on its head. This body of work reconfigures the way we see the male body in art, in life.\u00a0 &#8211;Timothy Liu, author of <em>Bending the Mind Around the Dream&#8217;s Blown Fuse<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/tmh-headshot-paul-latorre-color-corrected-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3564 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/tmh-headshot-paul-latorre-color-corrected-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/tmh-headshot-paul-latorre-color-corrected-copy.jpg 743w, https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/tmh-headshot-paul-latorre-color-corrected-copy-300x287.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a>Paul LaTorre is a poet, activist and educator who teaches at Bloomfield College in New Jersey. Blending pop culture with advocacy for various forms of trauma including abuse, disorder, and mental health issues, his aim is to create dark poems with a sense of levity. Paul&#8217;s work has been published in <em>Zeitgeist, Drunk Monkeys, Narrative Northeast, BLINK<\/em> and has been featured on the <em>DREAM Act&#8217;s<\/em> &#8216;voices&#8217; portal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication Date: March 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ISBN:978-0-9983406-4-7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pages: 42<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Trade paperback: 7 x 10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BUY HERE ON AMAZON:\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0998340634\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0998340634<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Candid in his courage and craft, Paul LaTorre\u2019s Disappearing Boy pulls apart the burning spaces of language and body where identity and desire struggle in wars. LaTorre writes, \u201cBoys become men \/ who vanish altogether\u201d to reveal, in poetry that soars and survives by uncanny reckoning, the unseen and unsayable acts through which masculinity is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3546","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5523,"href":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3546\/revisions\/5523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3mileharborpress.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}