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...Laurie Shannon Duke University Press 2004 POETIC COMPANIES Musters of Agency in George Gascoigne’s “Friendly Verse” Laurie Shannon Tam marti quam mercurio. George Gascoigne (c. 1537–77) was a self-named prodigal and the most suc- cessful alleged failure in Elizabethan letters. He...

...Kathryn R. Kent This essay places Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's later writings on poetry alongside her early unpublished piece “The 1001 Seances” to illustrate how the latter theorizes the connection between poetic form (and its relation to the novelistic) and male-male homoerotics. I then consider...

... of a Disappearance (1996), Hochberg sees the possibilities embedded in invisibility, “the political and poetic potential in being unseen” (65). The protago- nist, an Israeli Palestinian rendered invisible by the Jewish hegemony, is an avid spectator who resists by refusing to appear, his own choice...

...Ramzi Fawaz This essay explores the use of viscerally charged language around digestive dysfunction in AIDS cultural productions of the late 1980s and early 1990s. I coin the phrase “the digestive politics and poetics of AIDS” to describe the use of metaphors that linked the digestive dysfunctions...

... to a double-bind in which queer Appalachian writers often profess to find themselves: on the one hand, dismissed as coal-loving “white trash” by urban environmentalists; on the other, subjected to right-wing violence at home. Mann's writing negotiates this tension through poetic engagement with “hillbilly...

... and work to light, this article aims to provide scholars with a fuller understanding of postwar queer poetics. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Zen queer silence John Cage mesostic In keeping with his long-standing interest in the discipline of silence...

...Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman Building on José Esteban Muñoz’s theorization of ecstasy as a site of queer of color desire, relational practice, and utopic possibility, this essay conceptualizes what I call the black ecstatic as a hermeneutic for analyzing post–civil rights black queer poetics. My...

..., contributors present case studies, think pieces, and a poetic, epistolary exchange. In sum, these writings demonstrate the multiplicity of queer commons. Copyright © 2018 Duke University Press 2018 Internet pastoral extractive public space nonsovereign anarcho-queer References Federici...

... 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...

... that captures the love and sexual satisfaction that can grow from a committed relationship. These periods are marked by different imagery, language, and poetic structure. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 bilingual poetry homoerotic poetry homoamorous poetry gay identity References...

...Stephen Dillon Abstract In this essay, the author examines June Jordan's poetic invocations of violence in order to consider their implications for future abolitionist thought. Jordan uses violence in her poetry to envision ways of feeling and being that make the present impossible and unimaginable...

...Michael M. Reinhard [email protected] Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media . micha cárdenas . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2022 . 224 pp. Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Over the past decade, critics have...

... belated publication of the present essay, “The 1001 Seances,” may have some- thing to tell us about where her thinking actually was early on apropos of a whole range of issues that magnetized her work for the long middle of her career, includ- ing the politics and poetics of male...

... and privileged matter-metaphor of dust disaggregates. Though his work does not shy away from positionality, it is through the trope of dust that we find the force and charge of his poetics. He wrote defiantly and openly about his queerness, his status as a Puerto Rican subject, and his fascination...

... anticipating a future in which the poet’s work will become “queerer still”: “I have not yet sung as I want to sing. My songs are queer songs but when I grow older they will be queerer still.”8 This provocative “testament” to a “queer” poetics raises questions around...

... 2016 About the Contributors Anjali Arondekar is associate professor of feminist studies at the University of Cali­ fornia, Santa Cruz. Her research engages the poetics and politics of sexuality, colonialism, and historiography, with a focus on South Asia. She is the author...

... judge a book by its cover, especially “SURPRISING RECOGNITION”: PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS ON GENRE, POETIC FORM, AND EROTICS IN SEDGWICK A GIRL’S JOURNEY INTO THE WELL OF FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE 605 since the titles, authors, and presses are historic. Indeed...

... the politics of queerness it gave rise to. So it makes sense that the poetic “tradition” of Mar- tin’s book is not so much “queer” as it is fraternal — a tradition of brother seeking brother in poetic time; a tradition of “hermeneutic friend[s as Allen Grossman called it.1 Martin does not aim...

... as queer poetics. While a strain of queer poetics scholarship operates in the para- noid mode (e.g., Robert K. Martin’s and Thomas Yingling’s pathbreaking work), the best new queer poetics scholarship (e.g., John Shoptaw, John Vincent, Tim Dean, and Michael Snediker) resists...

... ON GENRE, POETIC FORM, AND EROTICS IN SEDGWICK IMMERSION IN LEGACY: COMING HOME TO OURSELVES AND ONE ANOTHER 621 own history.”1 Filmmaker Julia Wallace, the daughter of a Baptist preacher, and her poet-­writer partner, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, have taken up the responsibility...