Queer Troublemakers

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, sexu...