... Responses to the Poems of Joy Harjo, or What’s an Old-Timey Gay Boy Like Me to Do? Craig Womack (Muscogee Creek) Suspicioning. I’ve used the word a number of times, mentioned my grandmother, Velma Jones, who treated it as a verb, always going about suspicioning things, as in I suspicion...

...Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick This essay, written in 1976–77, is concerned primarily with James Merrill's long poem “The Book of Ephraim,” which was published in 1976. The poem tells of many nights spent by Merrill and his partner, David Jackson, in communication with a spirit named Ephraim, whose messages...

...Sarah Dowling In this essay I read the long poem Tokinish by the Mohawk poet James Thomas Stevens. Stevens borrows passages of prose description from Roger Williams's 1643 Narragansett lexicon, A Key into the Language of America , as well as the earlier text's structure of facing columns of English...

... the “window poems” of queer New York School poet James Schuyler. In these poems, Schuyler documents small and large forms of urban transformation from his Manhattan apartment during the 1950s and 1960s. Schuyler’s poems, Knittle argues, model strategies for how to identify the obsolescence of normative space...

...-speaking queers who arrived in Israel from the former Soviet Union. My discussion starts from one ethnographic moment—a homophobic poem published in 2002 in a leading Russian Israeli newspaper. The poem condemned the 2002 Pride parade as blasphemous and blamed the marchers for endangering the Jewish nation...

...Michael Moon Lesbian and gay studies was still in its academic infancy when Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick wrote her long-unpublished essay on James Merrill's long poem “The Book of Ephraim” (1976). Sedgwick's essay focuses on what she sees as the poem's fascinated concern with the administration...

... by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. A sustained reading of Sedgwick's poem “The Use of Being Fat” becomes the way through which this article argues for the possibility of a fat present/presence and the new fat hermeneutics required to notice the same. Queer theory will be left with two important methodological...

...Natalie Prizel This essay traces a lesbian literary history from the works of Charles Dickens and Algernon Charles Swinburne through the 1950s and 1960s. In discussing the former’s Bleak House (1853) and the latter’s 1866 volume Poems and Ballads , the essay demonstrates the emergence...

... around but is not necessarily in the bottom. His essay “Currency” and poem “Lick My Butt” theorize the (peri-)bottom as an ambivalent positioning that taints celebratory claims about the subversive potentiality of bottomhood. Reanimating shame and the erotic through a poetics of sweet pain, Chin’s works...

...Stephanie Youngblood This article takes up the intersection of AIDS testimony, lyric poetry, and gay male sexuality in Frank Bidart's poetry. Using Douglas Crimp's discussion of the politics of AIDS aesthetics as a starting point, I focus on Bidart's 1997 collection of poems, Desire, to consider...

... Literature and Male Homosocial Desire ; and one other meeting, when the author and Sedgwick discussed James Merrill's poetry and also cruising. Finally, the author quotes and contextualizes a passage evidently about himself from one of Sedgwick's poems. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 The Bar...

... lyrics known as “imperfect enjoyments” that interrupt both sexual and formal heteroconventions, turning the sexual impasse into a queerly generative and procreative act. Although scholars traditionally read the poems as satires on sexual failure, I show that libertine poets' investments in philosophical...

...” gustatory traditions—namely, by adopting the recipe form. These poems, and the acts of foraging, preparing, and sharing food they represent, articulate queer communities gathered around tactile experiences of place. They also illustrate the promises and pitfalls of the recipe's representational potential...

... praxis. Through a reading of three poems, the author demonstrates that, for Rukeyser, questioning human ontological boundaries is inextricable from her exploration of queer human desire, and especially inextricable from her vision of queer futurity. Furthermore, this essay shows how queer ecopoetics...

... this poem describe in some detail erotic pleasures of the fl esh, but it also pro- vides us with an astonishingly well-articulated approach to an alternative mode of doing Renaissance sexuality. Instead of focusing on the success of a teleological approach to desire, the poem ponders...

... Copyright © 2003 by Duke University Press 48 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN AND GAY STUDIES most, what follows is a reading of the Roman de la Rose, a thirteenth-century French allegorical poem. According to a story contained in it, this poem was begun by Guillaume de Lorris and was both...

... that it can then apprehend as ‘true.’ ”1 When she wrote “The 1001 Seances” soon after the publication of James Merrill’s long poem “The Book of Ephraim,” in 1976, perhaps Eve hoped the essay would inspire in its author that feeling of “surprised recognition.”2 When he read her account of its...

..., was a slow one, extending well into the 1980s. In the most recent curriculum vitae of Eve’s that we have, all five of her publications A NOTE ON THE “THE 1001 SEANCES” 453 from 1980 and earlier are poems or groups of poems. Eve’s first listed publication...

... into tradition, with the work of all the other (indicatively male) poets, whose poems are then rewritten by the new arrival — inverting the relationship between past and present, and making the son the father.5 By incor- porating these retrojections and prolepses into their accounts...