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Book SynopsisA collection of essays which celebrate the liberatory and utopian possibilities that poetry's autonomy offers.
Trade ReviewOrpheus in the Bronx not only extols the freedom language affords us; it embodies that freedom, enacting poetry's greatest gift - the power to recognize ourselves as something other than what we are. These bracing arguments were written by a poet who sings. - James Longenbach
Table of ContentsPortrait of the Artist; To Make Me Who I Am; Manifestos of a Sort; The Other's Other:; Against Identity Poetry, for Possibility; Toward an Urban Pastoral; Notes toward Beauty; One State of the Art; Readings; On Alvin Feinman's; ""True Night""; On Jorie Graham's Erosion:; Poetry, Perception, Politics; What Remained of a Genet:; On the Topic of Querelle; Shadows and Light Moving on Water: On Samuel R. Delany; Four Gay American Poets; On Linda Gregg's; Too Bright to See; A Poetics; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Coat: Nuances of a Theme by Stevens.
