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Poetry Is Queer

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Poetry is Queer is a kaleidoscope of sexual outlaws, gay icons, Sapphic poets, and great lovers—real and imagined—conjured like gateway drugs to a queer world. Claiming the word “queer” for those who self-proclaim the authority of their own bodies in defiance of church and state, Kirby pays tribute to gay touchstones while embodying both their work and joy. From gazing upon street boys with constant companion C.P. Cavafy, to end of day observances with Frank O’Hara, to mowing Walt Whitman’s grass, Poetry Is Queer is a hybrid-genre memoir like no other.

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Kirby

Kirby’s work includes What Do You Want To Be Called? (Anstruther Press, 2020), This Is Where I Get Off (Permanent Sleep Press, 2019) and She’s Having a Doris Day (Knife Fork Book, 2017). They are the publisher / book fairy at knife | fork | book [Toronto]. jeffkirby.ca
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 1- First Lines – Poetry Is Queer – "There is but a single success story" – "It was a pleasure just to light" – "I am a professional … 21 $2.10

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 2- "A full moon. Allen Gardens" – "It helped to read Genet" – "Luckily my first encounters" – "Vast. Baby." – "It started with … 20 $2.00

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 3- Queer: – "I found it refreshing" – "As Baldwin said" – "I was supposed to love" – "As queers, it’s essential" – … 22 $2.20

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 4 – "There are two great things" – "But he goes on to say" – Daniel Mendelsohn is a man" – Bullet Bio – "Candyland!" – … 21 $2.10

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 5- "Cockland!" – ‘Do you think you’ll die’" – "’I wish I had known’" – "I first encountered" – "I was … 20 $2.00

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 6 – "’Did you know Mark?’" – "I’m walking Anne Michaels" – Queersay – "I’ll never trust any man" – "A year … 20 $2.00

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 7 – "Numbers is a perfect novel" – "While we’re still in the ’70s" – "I first spotted him at Cornelius" – "Are you fucking … 22 $2.20

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 8 – "Andrew Holleran wrote the gay" – "I’m giving a series of workshops" – "On being lonely" – "In a very recent puff piece" … 21 $2.10

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 9 – "And this is at the root" – "Besides Hemphill’s Ceremonies" – "I don’t have many heroes" – “Can David Come Out to … 23 $2.30

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 10 – "I’m here to reclaim" – "The stoppers remain" – "My mom plans a visit" – "Poetry / You don’t read it" – … 21 $2.10

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 11 – "It’s just after 7 pm" – "I said I would never protect" – "“Wait, we’re paying how much" 11 $1.10