Viral
By: Suzanne Parker
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 61
ISBN-13: 9781938584015
Subjects: Gay youth; Outing (Sexual orientation); Poetry; American poetry; Elegiac poetry
Work titles: Poems
Description: An extended elegy for Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers student whose privacy was brutally invaded by his roommate and sent out on the web, precipitating Tyler's suicide.
Table of contents: title: If the Body Could Live without Desire; title: I. Peeping Tom; title: The Color Blue; title: Practice I; title: Little Boy and Mother; title: Practice II; title: Splash; title: How Rushed They Were; title: Small Boys Believing; title: Hiss; title: Summer in the City; title: In the Glory Hole; title: Because; title: Viral; title: Music; title: Only Kissing; title: Just; title: Suite #4; title: Stopped I; title: II. Passage; title: Phone Call; title: Waiting; title: Belief; title: Inhale; title: Tunnel; title: The Secret History of Bridges; title: Gawker.com; title: To the Men; title: After a Long Silence; title: The River; title: Now What; title: Things You Practice; title: The Courts Are Shuffling Their Laws; title: It Is Hard to Hate the World; title: Bringing Him Back; title: III. Momentum; title: The Persistence of Desire; title: Stopped II; title: The Sparrow Lifts the Spent Condom into the Air; title: I Want to Give This a Happy Ending; title: Somewhere, Someone; title: Nightmare Taken from the Closet; title: The Physics of Safety; title: The Body's Betrayal; title: An Essential Language.