What Is the Grass thor Mark Doty and Pulzer Prize wner Jericho Brown discs the gay poet's legacy.
Contents:
- POETRY THAT IS GAY
- IS POETRY GAY?
- POEMS / GAY POEMS - THE BT POETRY ON THE WEBNEWTSOBSHAGS FOLLOWON AUG 25 2023 08:30 AM PST THE GLOSSY STUGGLE OF A ONCE YOUNG GAY MAN
POETRY THAT IS GAY
Poetry that is gay * poetry is gay *
Explore the rich tradn of gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr, and queer poets and poetry by browsg a selectn of poems & d. But for the award-wng gay poet Doty, textual analysis of the great Amerin bard required a personal analysis, which necsated this kd of spirual ntact.
"Labels like gay, queer, or bisexual were nonexistent Whman's era. Or, to -opt one of the more unfortunate terms of our time, I’d like to ask another, overly provotive qutn: Is poetry gay? He is a gay poet (or a poet who happens to be gay), and though I hate to place labels on any wrer, the poems his first book, The Anchorage, do not shy om this personal tth.
IS POETRY GAY?
* poetry is gay *
The many dark piec are hnted by mortaly and vlence, and they trace a young gay man’s journey to a new life, far om his boyhood home Wisns, near that “highway that cuts the Midwt to two unequal/ halv.
POEMS / GAY POEMS - THE BT POETRY ON THE WEBNEWTSOBSHAGS FOLLOWON AUG 25 2023 08:30 AM PST THE GLOSSY STUGGLE OF A ONCE YOUNG GAY MAN
Of urse, a man n be both “manly” and gay my humble opn, but I spect there are still plac Ameri (and many other parts of the world) where this is simply not the se: a gay man is marked as effemate, no matter his genr performance, and that’s the end of the story. As a gay poet who grew up the ral Midwt and went to school Wisns, I have been eply affected by Wunrlich’s work, toxited wh his utter honty speakg about love, sex and attachment.