I faced the riseand fall of my father's stomach and plunged my handcarefully through the elastic waist bands of his shorts,startled at how different his penislooked from mine: darker, not only the skinbut the hair around it like tree shadows.Its head, a gravity-defying, moth-eating house lizard,had no flap of skin over it. Its title is imperative. PASSION. And we’ll divide the air” or “The world is full of lovely but tragic boys’ and so it is, and so it is. The way Diaz intertwines personal and the historic, mundane and mythological, individual and universal all stretch a different muscle as you read, satisfying deep stretches. Need more help? Parts of this site are only available to paying PW subscribers. June is the month to celebrate LGBTQIAP+ pride, so why not kick off your summer with some fantastic, themed reads? "—Publishers Weekly. Legaspi, a fellow queer Asian-American poet, has a way of talking about the body that estranges it from the gazes of others. Here's what each picked. Peanut Butter. To find out more about PW’s site license subscription options please email: [email protected]. 9. Rachel Wiley's Nothing Is Okay simultaneously deconstructs the lies that we were taught about our bodies and our beings, and builds new ways of viewing ourselves. Discipline’s speakers say the things we barely admit to ourselves. Hemphill centers black queer love as a politicized and radical act, he mines the archive of his memory and bodily experience, he’s brave, urgent, generous, and clear in the poems. Words are powerful. They include some of my personal favorites, some classics, and some on my TBR that I still really need to get around to, because I have over 1,000 books on my Goodreads Want-To-Read shelf (bet you can relate). Black Queer Poets, oh how they dare. Patrons who contribute comments are asked to read our Policy on Patron-Generated Web Content. You can read Frank Bidart's poetry in Half-light: Collected Poems of Frank Bidart, 1965-2016. If you don’t have an NYPL library card, New York State residents can apply for a digital card through SimplyE (available on the App Store or Google Play). For more Who else but him—present in a world that claimed he was, in at least two ways, wrong—could bring us so much closer, that intimate with our own breathing bodies, which will fail us? If you have questions or need assistance setting up your account please email [email protected] or call 1-800-278-2991 (U.S.) or 1-818-487-2069 (all other countries), Monday-Friday between 5am and 5pm Pacific time for assistance. I petted it. Not all of the poems by queer poets on the list below are as jovial as a Pride parade, but every one of them will make you feel something, whether that's righteous fury, elation, or sadness. All of these poetry collections are also available as digital e-books. I think it’s that, for one, in a life marked by more than racial and sexual differences, it’s crucial to read these poems that cleave distinctions sharply, insistently, as if sculpting, knowing that erosion is promised; that take up precision as a kind of faith, earning again and over the wisdom that language is fickle, godlike, ruinous, and what we have to clarify this endlessly mystifying, sometimes absurd existence. Please by Jericho Brown - The first time I read Please by Jericho Brown it was 3 a.m. on Christmas morning, 2013. Hemphill centers black queer love as a politicized and radical act, he mines the archive of his memory and bodily experience, he’s brave, urgent, generous, and clear in the poems. You can read much of Angelina Weld Grimké's poetry in her Selected Works. And check out our Staff Picks browse tool for more recommendations! Cavafy's work in C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems. 4. Letters to a Stranger by Thomas James - For me, “queer” has always been a word that attempted to name a kind of loneliness, a longing that shaped the way I observed the world—observing as a way of participation when I couldn’t name my desires. It can cause a woman to laugh, a man to cry, a child to fight, I encourage you to read their words, to think about their words, to understand their words. Last night frost glazed the face of Mary Magdalene. My partner slept in the middle of our bed across the room. Call: 1-800-278-2991 (US) or 1-818-487-2069 (Outside US/Canada) 5 a.m. - 5 p.m. Mon-Fri (Pacific). They say the lonely things. It stiffened, flaunting itselfas the center of the universe.I wanted my penis to belike my father's, the union of beauty and purpose,and five years later, on a thirsty July afternoon,he asked me and my brother to hurry up,he was taking us to the doctor for our circumcisions.

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