Super Gay Poems ed. by Stephanie Burt Julia Blackburn Themed chapters allow for fascinating

Themed chapters allow for fascinating new comparisons – William Blake’s ‘London’ (1794) sits alongside Andrew Salkey’s ‘Jamaica’ (1973) in discussions of place – revealing how each manuscript has shaped our understanding and practice of poetry today

great metaphorical beauty

on the side of stray dogs and in a million other places – including

folkloric remembrance and political reportage

the limitless energy of Juan Felipe Herrera

Super Gay Poems ed. by Stephanie Burt Julia Blackburn Themed chapters allow for fascinatingA 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. A groundbreaking anthology edited by acclaimed poet, critic, and scholar Stephanie Burt, Super Gay Poems brings together fifty one works encompassing the wide range of queer and trans verse after the Stonewall uprising of 1969. Since that galvanizing