Actions for Queer : LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday
Queer : LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday / edited by Frank Wynne
- Additional Titles
- LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday
- Published
- London : Head of Zeus, 2021.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 608 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Additional Creators
- Wynne, Frank
- Contents
- From The Iliad: Achilles' lament / Homer -- Three poems: prayer ot our Lady of Paphos ; I have not had one word from her ; Afraid of losing you / Sappho -- David and Jonathan / The Book of Samuel -- Three poems: Sonnets 15, 80, and 99 / Catullus -- Three poems: Sonnet 29, 87, and 126 / William Shakespeare -- To the fair Clarinda / Aphra Behn -- Inés, dear, with your love I am enraptured / Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz -- From the Diaries of Anne Lister / Anne Lister -- We two boys together clinging / Walt Whitman -- Her breast is fit for pearls / Emily Dickinson -- Sonnet to the arsehole / Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud -- Our arses are not theirs / Arthur Rimbaud -- From "De Profundis" / Oscar Wilde -- From A Shropshire lad: look not in my eyes / A.E. Housman -- One night / Constantine Cavafy -- From Berlin's third sex / Magnus Hirschfeld -- Three poems: Aubade ; Carrefour ; Absence / Amy Lowell -- Three poems: The latent night ; She passes ; Words to my love / Renée Vivien -- Miss Oglivy finds herself / Radclyffe Hall -- From Orlando / Virginia Woolf -- Friendship / Katherine Mansfield -- Girlfriend (Podruga) / Marina Tsvetaeva -- Two poems: Music ; To Eros / Wilfred Owen -- Two poems: Since the first toss of gale that blew ; Drawing you, heavy with sleep, to lie closer / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- The poet speaks to his love on the telephone / Federico García Lorca -- Everything contains you / Karin Boye -- Blessed assurance / Langston Hughes -- The eyes of the body / Valentine Ackland -- Smoke, lilies and jade / Bruce Nugent -- Lee and the boys / William Burroughs -- The quilt / Ismat Chughtai -- Everything is nice / Jane Bowles -- Like that / Carson McCullers -- From Carol / The price of salt / Patricia Highsmith -- The cry of the excavator / Pier Paolo Pasolini -- Please master / Allen Ginsberg -- The man with night sweats / Thom Gunn -- Three poems: Never to dream of spiders ; Love poem ; Afterlove / Audre Lorde -- From Faggots / Larry Kramer -- The chair / Takahashi Mutsuo -- The wedding / Reinaldo Arenas -- From Rubyfruit jungle / Rita Mae Brown -- From Michael Tolliver lives: confederacy of survivors / Armistead Maupin -- To stimulate the burning of the heart / Patrizia Cavalli -- Three poems: For my trans dyke sisters ; Cunt ; Me too / Roz Kaveney -- Three poems: Isaac ; YAKANTALISA ; Reuben and I / Hezy Leskly -- Highlights / Alan Hollinghurst -- A man's secrets / Hervé Guibert -- Love's tears, or, Rapunzel and the drifter / Murathan Mungan -- Three friends / Colm Tóibín -- Words / Neil Bartlett -- The poetics of sex / Jeanette Winterson -- Coming out story / Alison Bechdel -- You'll do / Rosie Garland -- A real doll / A.M. Homes -- Patrick Gale / Brown manilla -- Shadows / Damon Galgut -- A chartist / Phillip Hensher -- Air / Hoshino Tomoyuki -- Five poems / Yau Ching -- From The truth about me / A. Revathi -- From Born both: going public / Hida Viloria -- From Last words from Montmartre: letter fourteen / Qiu Miaojin -- Letter from a trans man to the sexual ancien régime / Paul B. Preciado -- Handle with bear / Lawrence Schimel -- The wounded man / Abdellah Taïa -- The brevity of cigarettes / John Better Armella -- Private parts: anti-bodies / Nicholas Wong -- Fig. 370. Hunchback due to tuberculosis of the spine / Jacek Dehnel -- From The gender games: the penny drops / Juno Dawson -- Six women I'm not / Cat Fitzpatrick -- They keep killing us / Sergio Loo -- Binary / Zhang Yueran -- A gay poem / Emerging from matter / Keith Jarrett -- Underskirts / Kirsty Logan -- Forget the girls / Alma Mathijsen -- The avenging whip / Max Lobe -- Two poems: Screen ; If it wasn't for the nights ; A gift / Andrew McMillan -- I met a girl named Bat who met Jeffrey Palmer / Imogen Binnie -- From Crimson / Niviaq Korneliussen
- Summary
- From the Bible to Catullus and Sappho, from Rimbaud to Virginia Woolf, and Alison Bechdel to Armistead Maupin, award-winning translator Frank Wynne has selected 100 of the finest stories and poems celebrating queer love by LGBTQI authors from the world over.
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- ISBN
- 9781789542349 hardback
1789542340 hardback - Endowment Note
- Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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