Super Gay Poems by Stephanie Burt
Esteemed scholar, poet, and critic Stephanie Burt anthologizes five decades of verse for and by queer Americans. Interpreted by Burt, the poems of Frank OHara, 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.
Like many readers, I suspect, I have often found myself wondering whether overly obtuse or encoded poems are worth the effort'Just try' might be the operating mantra of this collection. Just try to understand what the poet is saying, Burt urges. Reading her essays is like sitting in class with your favorite English professor: Resistance is futile. Just try to dislike or dismiss the poems that she has chosen to investigate. -- Dale Boyer * Gay and Lesbian Review *
This deft and thoughtful anthology of poems about queerness is a strong addition to any library collection. -- Autumn West * Library Journal *
Well selected and compulsively readable…Burt’s insightful commentary draws throughlines between eras and poets, making this a valuable text for the classroom and a dynamic and comprehensive collection for casual readers of contemporary poetry. * Publishers Weekly *
What a gift, this book, one I wish I had in my personal library and in my super gay life much earlier. Stephanie Burt is a vital thinker, offering witty, fun, aesthetically perceptive, and politically astute reflections on the work of an astonishing range of poets. -- Chen Chen, author of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
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
Stephanie Burt has given us not just a guide to queer poetry but a new way of thinking about beauty, passion, and the passage of time. Absolutely indispensable. -- Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky
This deft and thoughtful anthology of poems about queerness is a strong addition to any library collection. -- Autumn West * Library Journal *
Well selected and compulsively readable…Burt’s insightful commentary draws throughlines between eras and poets, making this a valuable text for the classroom and a dynamic and comprehensive collection for casual readers of contemporary poetry. * Publishers Weekly *
What a gift, this book, one I wish I had in my personal library and in my super gay life much earlier. Stephanie Burt is a vital thinker, offering witty, fun, aesthetically perceptive, and politically astute reflections on the work of an astonishing range of poets. -- Chen Chen, author of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
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
Stephanie Burt has given us not just a guide to queer poetry but a new way of thinking about beauty, passion, and the passage of time. Absolutely indispensable. -- Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674273115 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674273117 |
| Title | Super Gay Poems |
| Author | Stephanie Burt |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 2025-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
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