The Wild Hunt Divinations by Trevor Ketner
Shakespeare's 154 sonnets anagrammed into wildly new poems about queer desire and kink. The Wild Hunt Divinations: A Grimoire is a stunning second collection from National Poetry Series winner, Trevor Ketner. Comprised of 154 sonnets, each anagrammed line-by-line from Shakespeare's sonnets, the book refracts these lines through the thematic lens of transness, queer desire, kink, and British paganism. The sonnets come together to form a grimoire that casts a trancelike and intense spell on the reader. Centered on love and desire in the English canon, this collection speaks to the ever-emerging and beautiful manifestations of queer love and desire. Relentless, excessive, wild, and tender, The Wild Hunt Divinations: A Grimoire sets itself to chanting from beginning to end. When forty winters shall beseige thy brow, gowns web (herb hysteria)—let's thin flowery then—gaudy bicep—insistent herd—leaf dyed to holy doorway—hunt syrups—doze—given that i swallow debt, let me whorl—feed lard / ale / ill breath—they get eye winks—husband, of thudhurt, eyeray, saltwar—sheets yell, tan—nude hyphen—i knot woe; sinewy, it sees fingernails (limp waters, a hand sea), leather sets, meshes—hewed out virus—debauchery: try a mop or a match—i hot—i lucid—i wonderflush—stiffens: exoskeleton / cum—cuddly human mass—la, sings a boyish brute in his coven—cut—yep, hood him—we want a wren duet / to be shelter, a trans thud, sob, melt—oh, welt / honeyed wife.
TREVOR KETNER (New York, NY) is the author of [WHITE], a winner of the National Poetry Series. They are also the author of Major Arcana: Minneapolis, winner of the Burnside Review award. They have been published in The Brooklyn Rail, New England Review, Lambda Literary, and elsewhere. A 2020 Lambda Literary Fellow, they have been a Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow, Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow for The Poetry Project, and a Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Fellow.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780819500397 |
| ISBN 10 | 0819500399 |
| Title | The Wild Hunt Divinations |
| Author | Trevor Ketner |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
| Year published | 2023-03-07 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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