Man Enough for Myself: Because I Still Want to be Seen, Donatello Dreakford (Paperback)
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Told through poetry, Man Enough for Myself is Donatello Dreakford’s memoir of queer identity, love, and resilience. Through jagged and lyrical fragments, it explores memory, belonging, and what it means to be seen in one’s own truth.
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Man Enough for Myself: Because I Still Want to Be Seen is a memoir told through poetry—a raw, intimate meditation on identity, masculinity, and the fragile art of being known.
In this striking debut, Donatello Dreakford explores memory in fragments, the way it surfaces in life: jagged, unsteady, insistent. These poems trace the shape of queer becoming—through families both inherited and chosen, through tenderness and silence, through the ache of invisibility and the defiance of survival.
With language that is both direct and lyrical, Dreakford writes into the spaces where shame meets beauty, and where solitude becomes self-recognition. Each poem carries the weight of what’s left unsaid, yet insists on being seen, heard, and felt.
For readers of Ocean Vuong, Jericho Brown, and Andrea Gibson, Man Enough for Myself is a work of courage and vulnerability—a testament to queer endurance, chosen kinship, and the radical act of self-acceptance.
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