Queer Troublemakers: The Poetics of Flippancy

Author/Contributor(s):	Bussey-Chamberlain, Prudence ; Katz, Daniel
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Date:	01/28/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Irreverent and provoking, the figure of the 'queer troublemaker' is a disruptive force both poetically and politically. Tracing the genealogy of this figure in modern avant-garde American poetry, Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain develops innovative close readings of the works of Gertrude Stein, Frank O'Hara, Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson. Exploring how these writers play with identity, gender, sexuality and genre, Bussey-Chamberlain constructs a queer poetics of flippancy that can subvert ideas of success and failure, affect and affectation, performance and performativity, poetry and being.