The poetics of flippancy.

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.

Format: Hardcover
Page Count: 208 pages
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Size:  24 cm x 16.5 cm
Published: August 2019
ISBN: 9781350079359