POETRY IS QUEER AUDIOBOOK OUT NOW! READ BY KIRBY. PRODUCED BY DON PYLE. on BANDCAMP KOBO HEAR A SAMPLE: SWIRL SWIRL SWIRL
“Kirby’s Poetry is Queer… There’s a wisdom in it that is rare and so, so vibrant (courage).” – NEIL SURKAN, poetry mini interviews, author of Unbecoming, and Their Queer Tenderness
“There is a joy and an openness and a delight that permeates this collection, but also a simultaneous grief, sense of loss and even exhaustion…a joyous and devastating read.” – ROB MCLENNAN
From the author of THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE CALLED?, & SHE’S HAVING A DORIS DAY
Has Cavafy’s ghost entered my body?
If so, it did at a very early age. I’ve often wondered what was meant by ‘old souls,’ but regarding mine, I have no doubt.
That and/or, gay teenage longing is very similar to that of an elder’s. Everything but want slightly out of reach.
KIRBY POETRY IS QUEER
Poetry is Queer is a kaleidoscope of sexual outlaws, gay icons, Sapphic poets, and great lovers, real and imagined, conjured like gateway drugs to a queer world. Claiming the word QUEER for those “who self-proclaim the authority of their own bodies in defiance of church and state,” Kirby pays tribute to gay touchstones while embodying both their work and joy. From gazing upon street boys with constant companion C.P. Cavafy, to end of day observances with Frank O’Hara, to mowing Walt Whitman’s grass, Poetry Is Queer is a hybrid-genre memoir like no other. (Palimpsest)
OUT NOW from PALIMPSEST PRESS at your local independent bookstore.
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