Description: Esteemed scholar, poet, and critic Stephanie Burt anthologizes five decades of verse for and by queer Americans. Interpreted by Burt, the poems of Frank O'Hara, Audre Lorde, Judy Grahn, James Merrill, Thom Gunn, Jackie Kay, Adrienne Rich, Chen Chen, The Cyborg Jillian Weise, and others trace a flourishing of queer life from Stonewall to today.
Brief description: Stephanie Burt is the author of fourteen books of poetry and literary criticism. A past judge for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, she serves as a board member of the National Book Critics Circle, is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and writes regularly for the New York Times Book Review, the New Yorker, the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books, Raritan, and other publications. She is the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University.
Review Quotes: Stephanie Burt has woven a raucous rainbow flag from our contributions--the contributions of fags, dykes, enbys, trans folk, and queers--to poetry in the past four decades. This essential book needs to be on every poetry reading list and on every queer studies syllabus.--Rajiv Mohabir, author of Whale Aria