Title: Queer Troublemakers
Description: "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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Subjects: American poetry, history and criticism, 20th century, Avant-garde (aesthetics), Homosexuality and literature, American poetry, history and criticism, Flippancy in literature, American Experimental poetry, History and criticism, American poetry, Gays' writings, American, Criticism and interpretation