...Bruce Holsinger; David Townsend Duke University Press 2002 The GLQ Archive OVIDIAN HOMOEROTICS IN TWELFTH-CENTURY PARIS The Letters of Leoninus, Poet and Polyphone Bruce Holsinger and David Townsend For historians of sexuality in the premodern West, the “long twelfth century...

...H. A. Sedgwick This note summarizes what I know of the history of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's essay “The 1001 Seances.” I suggest that it was primarily as a poet herself that she was drawn to study and to write about the poetry of James Merrill, and I go on to suggest that her writing in this essay...

...Joseph Pizza This article explores John Cage's “62 Mesostics re Merce Cunningham,” a love poem dedicated to the poet's longtime partner. Though scholars of Cage's writing and music tend to ignore the queer context in which his work was created, this study attempts to reconcile the poet's art...

...Sianne Ngai This essay reads a series of social or capitalist abstractions: the iconic smiley face; Karl Marx's notoriously tricky concept of abstract, value-constituting labor; and the “soldier's body” qua allegory of value in contemporary American poet Rob Halpern's book Music for Porn (2012...

...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...

... of punishment and pain by one man on another. Written at least partly as a bid for recognition from a major American poet of the time, the essay can also be understood as an early act of engagement on Sedgwick's part with some of the most enduring of her critical and theoretical interests, such as abjected...

... Sedgwick's continuing interest as both a critic and a poet in the erotics of genre, especially as it reappears in A Dialogue on Love . © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 “Surprising Recognition” Genre, Poetic Form, and Erotics from Sedgwick’s “1001 Seances” to A Dialogue on Love Kathryn R...

.... The archivists, the filmmaker Julia Wallace, and the poet-writer-scholar Alexis Pauline Gumbs, collect stories as they travel across America in a mobile home, committing to what Nora sees as “the obsession with the archive that marks our age.” © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Moving Image Review...

... 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...

... this by way of an encounter with the writings of Marxist-feminist poet Karen Brodine. The labor relations that surround the typesetting computer are part and parcel of the revolutionary working-class and queer socialist feminism that Brodine elaborates across her writing and that she worked for tirelessly...

... and shame surrounding his failures and blockages as a writer. Through her near-identification with James, Sedgwick finds a queer strategy for dealing with her shame and depression around her own writing as a poet. A doctoral student of Sedgwick’s, the author performs the same near-identification...

... in contemporary queer theory and queer studies. The author argues that the burgeoning field of queer ecopoetics can offer a productive response to recent calls to forge feminism alongside queer theory. The author takes the poet Muriel Rukeyser (1913–80) as a case study for a queer, lesbian, feminist ecopoetic...

...Denise Minor This essay examines Poet Francisco X. Alarcón’s artistic expression of romance for gays within Latino communities. This study advances the concept of a “homoamorous” genre that privileges intimacy and romance between gay men without sensationalizing the physical contact...

... 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...

.... This essay draws together inaugural and contemporary queer theoretical preoccupations with temporality by focusing on two late-nineteenth-century les- bian poets whose writing is structured by complex adjudications of time and era. Katharine Bradley (1846 – 1914) and Edith Cooper...

...David R. Jarraway Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 “VANILLA HEMORRHAGES” The Queer Perversities of Frank O’Hara David R. Jarraway Prologue In the early morning of 24 July 1966, American poet Frank O’Hara, at the age of forty, stepped out in front...

...Zorimar Rivera Montes [email protected] The Queer Nuyorican: Racialized Sexualities and Aesthetics in Loisaida . Karen Jaime . New York : New York University Press , 2021 . 305 pp. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 If you've heard of the Nuyorican Poets...

... to establish the terrain of a gay textuality, as critics like Thomas Yingling and Lee Edelman later did, but to track the ways gay male poets cited each other, or cited Walt Whitman and Crane, to signal their member- ship in something like a lineage, specifically a lineage of imagining brotherhood...

... A logical machine of storybook torture . . .4 (How many teenage girl poets do you know who exhibit an interest in “logical machines of storybook torture Eve had a word for what that look, that tilt of the head, connotes: the word is “attention.” In an essay...

... of the poem, this hope that the dead friend will be remembered, is perhaps a place to start. Shelley’s poet asserts this belief even as he expresses the brutal fact of death. The death itself must be acknowledged, must be spoken, for this hope to be realized. Philip too...