Tobias Wray's No Doubt I Will Return a Different Man won the CSU Poetry Center's Lighthouse Poetry Series Competition. His work has found homes in Blackbird, Hunger Mountain, Meridian, and The Georgia Review, as well as the Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology (Autumn House Press). He currently lives in Los Angeles and is soon to start teaching at the University of Central Oklahoma.

Books by Tobias Wray:

Other poems on the web by Tobias Wray:
"Each of Us Chimera"
"Sci-fi Aubade"
"Music Arises from Component Parts or The Dream of a Clarinet"

Tobias Wray's Website.

Tobias Wray on Twitter.

About No Doubt I Will Return a Different Man:

"Wray's poems are wry luxury items of intelligence, sheathed in the latent double of speech, where a word like family might mean, in the queer parlance, refuge, but also, refutation. This is an interrogative, primal, mythic collection, a poetry of privacy and disclosure, of contradiction, a disabused landscape under 'razor-wire stars.'"
—Randall Mann

"NO DOUBT I WILL RETURN A DIFFERENT MAN explores how complicated relationships between fathers and sons cast long shadows over the future self. In Wray's poems, eros shades at times uncomfortably into social violence and self-abnegation, making this book both love song and elegy to masculinity and its performances, to queerness, and to self-invention. Wray's sharp-eared lyrics move between the darkly campy and the sublime, proving that paternal elegies themselves are 'queer things' whose shifting modes allow him to investigate the limits of fatherhood itself."
—Paisley Rekdal

"Situated in the long posterity of one of the most infamously shattered queer lives, this tense excavation of Alan Turing, this careful and sumptuous overlay of men's secrecies and assignations seventy years apart, is fascinating. NO DOUBT I WILL RETURN A DIFFERENT MAN delves for origins, stirs encryption with erotics, and makes 'caught looking' palpable in its thrill and thrall."
—Brian Blanchfield