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Poetry Is Queer
Poetry is Queer is a kaleidoscope of sexual outlaws, gay icons, Sapphic poets, and great lovers?real and imagined?conjured like gateway drugs to a queer world. Claiming the word ?queer? for those ? who self-proclaim the authority of their own bodies in defiance of church and state, ? Kirby pays tribute to gay touchstones while embodying both their work and joy. From gazing upon street boys with constant companion C.P. Cavafy, to end of day observances with Frank O?Hara, to mowing Walt Whitman's grass, Poetry Is Queer is a hybrid-genre memoir like no other.
Book Details
- Publisher: Palimpsest Press
- Publish Date: Oct 1st, 2021
- Pages: 250
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 6.93in - 4.49in - 0.63in - 0.35lb
- EAN: 9781989287866
- Categories: • LGBTQ+• Canadian• Essays
About the Author
Kirby's work includes What Do You Want To Be Called? (Anstruther Press, 2020), This Is Where I Get Off (Permanent Sleep Press, 2019) and She's Having a Doris Day (Knife Fork Book, 2017). They are the publisher / book fairy at knife fork book [Toronto]. jeffkirby.ca
What people are saying
Canadian small press since 2000, publishing poetry, fiction, and select nonfiction.
Many thanks to Hollay Ghadery for including Kirby's Poetry is Queer on this 49th Shelf List of 14 Canadian Multi-Genre Writers you have to read!: https://t.co/TAmGIjoMhz https://t.co/pVtkI8pcyn
Canada's Poetry Magazine, in publication for over 40 years. Arc 101 is available now! Tweets by Chris.
Kirby's Poetry is Queer is "a book of mini-essays as an impassioned manifesto that combines diaristic anecdote, vignette, epigram, list, and literary reflection." Read Keith Garebian's review of their newest "memoir-manifesto" on the Arc website, at https://t.co/0x6A711Rhp!
Managing Editor @action__books | Author of FALL GARMENT (2022); THE HOUSE OF THE TREE OF SORES (2020) from @_gobbet_ | Program Manager of @NDCreativeWrite
Many thanks to @itsakirby (author of #PoetryIsQueer) for including #FallGarment in their #sealeychallenge2022 reading list this month! Available from @_gobbet_ https://t.co/p7e94qtYLt https://t.co/Yty3T1Ul93
What people are saying
Canadian small press since 2000, publishing poetry, fiction, and select nonfiction.
Many thanks to Hollay Ghadery for including Kirby's Poetry is Queer on this 49th Shelf List of 14 Canadian Multi-Genre Writers you have to read!: https://t.co/TAmGIjoMhz https://t.co/pVtkI8pcyn
Canada's Poetry Magazine, in publication for over 40 years. Arc 101 is available now! Tweets by Chris.
Kirby's Poetry is Queer is "a book of mini-essays as an impassioned manifesto that combines diaristic anecdote, vignette, epigram, list, and literary reflection." Read Keith Garebian's review of their newest "memoir-manifesto" on the Arc website, at https://t.co/0x6A711Rhp!