{"product_id":"super-gay-poems-lgbtqia-poetry-after-stonewall","title":"Super Gay Poems: Lgbtqia+ Poetry After Stonewall","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStephanie 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 \n\u003ci\u003eWhale Aria\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStephanie 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 \n\u003ci\u003eAll the Birds in the Sky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat 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 \n\u003ci\u003e Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLike 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\" (3\/1\/2025 12:00:00 AM)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWell 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\" (3\/10\/2025 12:00:00 AM)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrief Description\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Esteemed scholar, poet, critic, and activist 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, Cyborg Jillian Weise, and others trace a flourishing of queer life from Stonewall to the present day.\"--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis deft and thoughtful anthology of poems about queerness is a strong addition to any library collection.--Autumn West \"Library Journal\" (3\/1\/2025 12:00:00 AM)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrief Description\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Esteemed scholar, poet, critic, and activist 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, Cyborg Jillian Weise, and others trace a flourishing of queer life from Stonewall to the present day.\"--Provided by publisher.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2025 New England Book Award for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA major poet and literary critic leads an aesthetic adventure through poems about queer experience, by writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, nonbinary, gender fluid, and more. \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA groundbreaking anthology edited by acclaimed poet, critic, and scholar Stephanie Burt, \n\u003ci\u003eSuper Gay Poems\u003c\/i\u003e brings together fifty-one works encompassing the wide range of queer and trans verse after the Stonewall uprising of 1969. Since that galvanizing moment, poetry has served as both a vehicle for queer liberation and a witness to its sometimes fragile, sometimes ebullient flourishing, across the world. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems in this anthology represent the great variety of queer and trans life itself. They include near-sonnets, iambic couplets, and rhymed quatrains; skinny dimeters and shaped poems; chatty free verse and intentionally inaccurate translations; the demotic and the rococo. Arranged in chronological order, the selections trace queer culture's recent evolutions. Frank O'Hara, Audre Lorde, Judy Grahn, James Merrill, Thom Gunn, Jackie Kay, Adrienne Rich, Chen Chen, essa ranapiri, and The Cyborg Jillian Weise--poets widely known and poets who deserve to be--share their alienation, their euphoria, and their encounters with a protean community as it discovers new solidarities and new selves. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach piece is paired with a concise, eye-opening essay in Burt's trademark style, with verve and an inimitable literary ear. A treasury of aesthetic experience and insight, \n\u003ci\u003eSuper Gay Poems\u003c\/i\u003e points protestors, political organizers, poetry lovers, and LGBTQIA+ readers toward many beautiful tomorrows. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 03\/01\/2025 pg. 104 (EAN 9780674273115, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 03\/17\/2025 (EAN 9780674273115, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eBurt, Stephanie\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStephanie 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 \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review, \u003c\/i\u003e the \n\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003e the \n\u003ci\u003e London Review of Books, \u003c\/i\u003e the \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books, Raritan, \u003c\/i\u003eand other publications. She is the Donald P. and Katherine B. 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