Queer Nature
Description
An anthology of nature poetry by queer authors celebrating the natural world and rethinking the nature poem.
Spanning three centuries, this anthology amplifies and centers LGBTQIA+ voices and perspectives in a collection of contemporary nature poetry. Showcasing over two hundred queer writers from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, Queer Nature offers a new context for and expands upon the canon of nature poetry while also offering new lenses through which to view queerness and the natural world.
In the introduction, editor Michael Walsh writes that the anthology is "concerned with poems that speak to and about nature as the term is applied in everyday language to queer and trans bodies and identities . . . Queer Nature remains interested in elements, flora, fauna, habitats, homes, and natural forces--literary aspects of the work that allow queer and trans people to speak within their specific cultural and literary histories of the abnormal, the animal, the elemental, and the unnatural." The anthology features poets including Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Blanco, Kay Ryan, Jericho Brown, Allen Ginsberg, Natalie Diaz, and June Jordan, as well as emerging voices such as Jari Bradley, Alicia Mountain, Eric Tran, and Jim Whiteside.
Product Details
| Publisher | Autumn House Press |
| Publish Date | May 11, 2022 |
| Pages | 320 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781637680384 |
| Dimensions | 8.8 X 6.0 X 1.1 inches | 1.4 pounds |
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Reviews
"This beautifully curated anthology reshapes the genre of nature poetry and awakens readers to its richness." --Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"Michael Walsh's new anthology of poetry, Queer Nature, highlights an important and capacious countertradition of queer poets who identify nonnormative sexualities with nature. In so doing, it introduces an important new archive for scholars attentive to the generative intersection of queerness and nature." --ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
"This compendium of gifted contemporary LGBTQA+ poets, representing all ethnicities, takes its place next to masterworks by queer poets of the past including Hart Crane, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Frank O'Hara, Audre Lorde, Thom Gunn, Adrienne Rich, and others. Walsh obviously curates with an eye toward authentic craft, past and present." --Edge Media
"From the elliptical probings of Carl Phillips to Amy Lowell wrestling with nasty plants, this collection from over 200 contributors provides a broad overview of the work of LGBT poets past and present, including many well-known poets." --The Gay & Lesbian Review
"Some entries are overtly queer, others poetry about nature by queer writers, but all connected by views of nature where the personal meets the wild." --Sierra Magazine
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