...Chad Bennett Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie Lytle Shaw Iowa City: University of Iowa Press , 2006 . x + 332 pp . Duke University Press 2009 Chad Bennett is a PhD candidate in English at Cornell University. Books in Brief The Autobiographical Isn’t the Personal...

... in English at the University of Florida. DOI 10.1215/10642684-2008-039 Books in Brief 529 The Outer Circle Chad Bennett Frank O’Hara: The Poetics of Coterie Lytle Shaw Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. x + 332 pp. Now...

... 529 The Outer Circle Chad Bennett Frank O’Hara: The Poetics of Coterie Lytle Shaw Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. x + 332 pp. Now,” wrote Frank O’Hara in 1954, “I am quietly waiting for / the catastro- phe of my personality / to seem beautiful again, / and interesting...

... in English at the University of Florida. DOI 10.1215/10642684-2008-039 Books in Brief 529 The Outer Circle Chad Bennett Frank O’Hara: The Poetics of Coterie Lytle Shaw Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. x + 332 pp. Now...

... Books in Brief 529 The Outer Circle Chad Bennett Frank O’Hara: The Poetics of Coterie Lytle Shaw Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. x + 332 pp. Now,” wrote Frank O’Hara in 1954, “I am quietly waiting for / the catastro- phe of my personality / to seem beautiful again...

... Books in Brief 529 The Outer Circle Chad Bennett Frank O’Hara: The Poetics of Coterie Lytle Shaw Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. x + 332 pp. Now,” wrote Frank O’Hara in 1954, “I am quietly waiting for / the catastro- phe of my personality / to seem beautiful again...

... consequential, for its comprehensive and elucidating discussion of a neglected but pioneering Black gay men's writing coterie. With its origins in the “Blackheart” collective in New York City, “Other Countries” was founded by members of the original group in 1986. Bost makes the salient point that such clusters...

... cruising venues for gay men. Cocteau (made up with lipstick and rouge) felt sufficiently chez lui at the ballet to call out across the theater to his friends or to scramble over intervening rows of seats to join them.52 In the company of a coterie of “bright young things...

... Court, they were charged with and tried for “conspiracy to commit the felony” of sodomy. Boulton’s and Park’s letters seemed to reveal the existence of a coterie that shared a coded language and played fast and loose with gender identities; they raised suspicions about deviant desires...

... (November 2, 1927) Persons,’ ” capture the androgynous unconventionality of this coterie by posing the figures upside-down to emphasize their unisex haircuts (fig. 8).41 Vogue’s pic- tures documented not only the people in what Mortimer called “the generation...

... is not that there was friction between gay   338  GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES men and Field — on the contrary, Bradley and Cooper situated themselves firmly within a gay male coterie, and understanding their work requires attention to the power of their cross-gendering and their lively...

... to create alternative forms of communality and sociality by exam- ining a series of seventeenth-­century English poems that thematize a sexual impasse. Known as “imperfect enjoyment” poems, these poems, produced by a coterie of libertine writers, were inspired by Ovid’s Amores (3.7...

... coterie of readers, only the “late” Moore would receive widespread fame. While I mean late to signify Moore at the end of her career and the dead Moore, this essay is less preoccupied with a kind of chronological biographi- Celibacy and Queerness...

... juridicolegal visions of a bounded, rights-bearing subject. DIVINE MONARCHY, SPIRITED SOVEREIGNTIES, AND THE TIMELY MALAGASY MSM MEDIUM- ACTIVIST SUBJECT Seth Palmer Sprawled out on the cool cement floor, Balou Chabat Rasoanaivo worked with her coterie of fellow sarimbavy same- sex- desiring and/or gender...

... the better-known careers of Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser. Gascoigne and Literary History Prouty’s 1942 criticism of the way that scholarly attention organizes sixteenth- century English poetry still holds much force as a description of the common practice in which we lionize the coterie...