num_pages: 72
description: Poetry. LGBT Studies. In her Los Angeles Review of Books essay Who Is Who: Pronouns Gender and Merging Selves Dana Levin describes Stacey Waite's fusion of gender identities: Pseudonyms heteronyms personae all the ventriloquizing literary arts; point of view and tonal shifts: these are tools for speakers and speaking. But the sentence too has a voice: 'i will not be the kind of boy who can not bear the memory of her body'... This is [Waite's] genius...to take innocuous syntactical phrasing and change the players mid-sentence--to get around English's pronominal either/or by creating a syntactical both/and....
language: English
title: Butch Geography
publisher: Tupelo Press