Borderland: Poetry and Words from the Intersection of Race, Masculinity, Bisexuality, and Grief

Ross Victory

Borderland is a poetry collection by award-winning author Ross Victory. Borderland explores themes of masculinity, race, bisexuality, and grief. Through narrative prose and free verse, Victory portrays himself as a son, student, teacher, and lover, showcasing joy, agony, identity, enhanced with sprinkles of visceral desire over 40 poems. He challenges societal conformity, reimagining divine love and resilience at the crossroads of hetero- and homonormativity.

In this collection, borders are not just lines on a map but a metaphor for the liminal spaces where identity and experience converge. Victory’s creative expression serves as both protest and elevation, giving voice to those who traverse the rigid terrains of masculinity and race and the fluid nature of grief and bisexuality. Readers are invited on a one-of-a-kind adventure through the in-between, where the future feels both inevitable and uncertain, where the definitions of self and another blur, creating space for more personal freedom.