Jack Parlett: The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr

USA 2022. 252 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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University of Minnesota Press
»The Poetics of Cruising« explores the relationship between cruising, photography, and the visual in the work of leading poets, from Walt Whitman in the nineteenth century to Eileen Myles in the twenty-first. What is it that happens, asks Jack Parlett, and what is it that is sought, in this often transient moment of perception we call cruising, this perceptual arena ... Weiterlesen

Jack Parlett: Fire Island

A Queer History. UK 2023, 272 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Granta Books
Fire Island: a slim strip of land off the coast of New York, and a place of hedonism, reinvention, liberation. Arriving on the island after a break-up back home in England, scholar and poet Jack Parlett was beguiled by what he found. Here were the halcyon scenes of Frank O'Hara's poetry - the bars where Patricia Highsmith got drunk - ... Weiterlesen