Description: "Cat Fitzpatrick delights in this post-pandemic follow-up to her debut verse novel of present-day manners, The Call-Out - a trans community celebration of mores, gender theory, and rhyme. The Dinner Party returns to the chaotic and adorable world of trans femme. Joining "The Dinner Party" are several other themed pieces, including "A Stay in the Country," a short arcadian pageant, "Baby Book," about the trials and tribulations of making babies as queer and transsexual couples, "Letter to Crabstick," an epistolatory friendship, and "Uxorious Sonnets," a collection of eight love poems"-- Provided by publisher.
Review Quotes: "Whether she's narrating an Ovidian verse drama, composing a sonnet sequence, or retelling Plato's Symposium in perfectly iambic envelope quatrains, Cat Fitzpatrick is a total genius at making old modes accommodate new realities. I'm so moved by this virtuosic collection of long poems about queer family-making, freaky friendship, erotic love, and gender transition. The Dinner Party is brilliant, hot, uproarious, and gay as hell: at once a high-wire camp performance and an aching tribute to the sounds and shapes of our language."--Maggie Millner, author of Couplets: A Love Story
"Cat Fitzpatrick's The Dinner Party celebrates love, community, domesticity and their manifold humiliations; grieves the loss inherent in love, monitors friends' clashes with the rapt gaze of a connoisseur, airs intimacy's fecal folds, and comes down soundly each time on the side of more: "we must refuse/to not be charmed." How fathom the vasts of the poet's perversity? She rhymes because she likes it. I like it too."--Sophia Dahlin, author of Glove Money