...Trace Peterson Abstract This essay argues for a possible trans poetics or trans poetry aesthetic in the United States by examining poems by three of the earliest visible trans poets to publish books in this country: Samuel Ace, Max Wolf Valerio, and kari edwards. Close readings of their poems...

... or in what ways those intimacies (or those boxes) will appear. Each contributor's work—with the exception of a few, including but not limited to the work of two deceased poets included in the collection, kari edwards and John Wieners—is accompanied by an individually titled “poetics statement.” While...

...-the-language-of-the-self/ . Peterson Trace . 2014 . “ Becoming a Trans Poet: Samuel Ace, Max Wolf Valerio, and kari edwards .” TSQ 1 , no. 4 : 523 – 38 . Pound Ezra . 1934 . ABC of Reading . New York : New Directions . Trans, Genderqueer, and Queer Terms Glossary . 2015...

... poetic aesthetic through an exploration of the work of three early practitioners: Samuel Ace, Max Wolfe Valerio, and kari edwards. She suggests that contending with trans erasure requires a con/textual historiography highlighting aesthetic and affective solutions to writing without tradition or social...

... Manifesto .” Women and Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 8 , no. 2 : 153 – 59 . Duke University Press . 2017 . “ Most Read Articles of 2017 .” Duke University Press blog, December 19 . dukeupress.wordpress.com/2017/12/19/the-most-read-articles-of-2017/ . edwards kari...