Andrew McMillan: Physical / Körper

Gedichte und Poems. Dt. v. Mazlum Nergiz / Richard Stoiber. D 2023, engl./dt. zweisprachig, 180 S., geb., € 26.80
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März
Andrew McMillans rohe und eindringliche Gedichte sind Hymnen an den männlichen Körper - an männliche Freundschaft und männliche Liebe: muskulös, intim, schockierend und tief bewegend. Wir werden Zeuge einer fast religiösen Feier des verwundbaren Körpers, der begehrt, liebt, unterdrückt und geschlagen wird. In einer außergewöhnlichen Mischung aus Alltagssprache, Aufgeschnapptem und sehniger, metaphysischer, musikalischer Sprache, die alle Tempi variiert, zerlegt McMillans ... Weiterlesen

Alexander McCall Smith: What W. H. Auden Can Do for You

UK 2022, 152 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Princeton University Press
Part self-portrait, part literary appreciation, the book tells how McCall Smith first came across the poet's work in the 1970s, while teaching law in Belfast, a violently divided city where Auden's »September 1, 1939,« a poem about the outbreak of World War II, strongly resonated. McCall Smith goes on to reveal how his life has related to and been inspired ... Weiterlesen

Rachel Smith / Barbara Vesey (ed.): The Love That Dares

Letters of LGBTQ+ Love Friendship Through History. UK 2022, 258 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
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ilex
A good love letter can speak across centuries, and reassure us that the agony and the ecstasy one might feel today have been shared by lovers long gone. In The Love That Dares , queer love speaks its name through a wonderful selection of surviving letters between lovers and friends, confidants and companions. - Alongside the more famous names ... Weiterlesen

Mary Jean Chan / Andrew McMillan (eds.): 100 Queer Poems

UK 2022, 175 pp., hardbound, € 19.95
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Vintage
Encompassing both the flowering of queer poetry over the past few decades and the poets who came before and broke new ground, »100 Queer Poems« presents an electrifying range of writing from the 20th century to the present day. Questioning and redefining what we mean by a »queer« poem, you'll find inside classics by Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Wilfred Owen, ... Weiterlesen

Alex Dimitrov: Love and Other Poems

UK 2021, 126 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Corsair
It fizzes like a just-opened bottle of soda. It sprints like the Beatles running through a train station. It talks a mile a minute like a person swept away in the druggy lunacy of a serious crush... There have been moments when, for me, its effervescence has failed to rhyme with the despondency of these days. But far more often, ... Weiterlesen

Audre Lorde: The Black Unicorn

UK 1978, 127 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Penguin UK
Filled with rage and tenderness, Audre Lorde's most acclaimed poetry collection speaks of mothers and children, female strength and vulnerability, renewal and revenge, goddesses and warriors, ancient magic and contemporary America. These are fearless assertions of identity, told with incantatory power. Audre Lorde writes as a black woman, a mother, a daughter, a lesbian, a feminist, a visionary - poems ... Weiterlesen

Sam Scott Schiavo: Carnal Remains - Photos & Poems

Ö 2018, 300 Seiten, 240 Abb., geb. 24 x 30,5 cm, € 149.00
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Paper Affairs Publishers
Die Monografie zeigt erstmals - in 13 Kapitel gegliedert - einen breiten Querschnitt seiner Männerfotos, die zwischen 1992 und heute entstanden. Einleitend zu den einzelnen Kapiteln fasst der Künstler selbst seine Gedanken zu den Bildern in kurze Gedichte. Jede Aufnahme wirkt wie ein zufälliger Schnappschuss, entstanden in einem intimen Moment zwischen zwei Menschen. Eine erotische und doch puristische Sammlung an ... Weiterlesen
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Helmut Neundlinger (Hg.): Thanksgiving für ein Habitat

W.H. Auden in Kirchstetten. Ö 2018, 256 S., Klappenbroschur, € 20.00
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Die vorliegende Publikation umfasst Neuübersetzung (inklusive Originaltext) des Zyklus »Thanksgiving for a Habitat« (1965), in dem Auden jedem Raum seines Hauses ein Gedicht gewidmet hat. Die Übertragung besorgte Uljana Wolf, eine der renommiertesten Dichterinnen und Übersetzerinnen der deutschsprachigen Literaturszene. Darüber hinaus versammelt der Band Beiträge, die sich mit Audens Beziehung zum Haus, zur Land und Leuten in Kirchstetten und Wien ... Weiterlesen

Ocean Vuong: Night Sky with Exit Wounds

Uk 2017, 80 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Jonathan Cape
An extraordinary debut from a young gay Vietnamese American, »Night Sky with Exit Wounds« is a book of poetry unlike any other. Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound subjects - love and loss, conflict, grief, memory and desire - and attends to them all with lines that feel ... Weiterlesen

James Franco: Straight James / Gay James

Poems. USA 2016, 58 pp., pb., € 14.99
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James Franco's new chapbook of poems, explores the facets of his public and private personas. »Straight James / Gay James« is a poetic bildungsroman - raw, candid, and uninhibited. James Franco writes about life as an actor, sexuality, questions of identity, gender, family, Gucci, Lana Del Rey, James Dean, and Hollywood. His poetic style varies from the imagistic to the ... Weiterlesen

James Baldwin: Jimmy's Blues, and Other Poems

USA 1989, 94 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Beacon
During his lifetime (1924-1987), James Baldwin authored seven novels, as well as several plays and essay collections, which were published to wide-spread praise. These books, among them »Notes of a Native Son«, and »Giovanni's Room«, brought him well-deserved acclaim as a public intellectual and admiration as a writer. However, Baldwin's earliest writing was in poetic form, and Baldwin considered himself ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Hennessy: Our Deep Gossip

Conversations with Gay writers on Poetry and Desire. USA 2013, 272 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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University of Wisconsin Press
From Walt Whitman forward, 150 years of radical experimentation and bold speech by gay and lesbian poets have deeply influenced the American poetic voice. The author interviews gay men who are celebrated American poets and writers: Edward Field, John Ashbery, Richard Howard, Aaron Shurin, Dennis Cooper, Cyrus Cassells, Wayne Koestenbaum, and Kazim Ali. The interviews showcase the complex ways art ... Weiterlesen

Gloria Anzaldúa: Borderlands / La Frontera

USA 2012, 304pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged, and continue to challenge, how we think about identity. »Borderlands / La Frontera« remaps our understanding of what a »border« is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but ... Weiterlesen

Jeremy Reed: Bona Vada

UK 2011, 112 pp., pb., € 19.95
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»Bona Vada«, Companion volume to Jeremy Reed's collection »Bona Drag« is a rich, brilliantly inventive collection of poems covering every detail of the poet's obsessive life, from the colour of Posh Spice's heels, to London street encounters, underworld friends, urban survival tactics, neuroscientific concepts and extraterrestrials, more than confirms J.G. Ballard's assessment of Reed, as »the most gifted poet working ... Weiterlesen

Elizabeth Bishop: Poems

Centenary Edition. UK 2011, 352 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Elizabeth Bishop's poems display honesty and humour, grief and acceptance, observing nature and human nature with painstaking accuracy. They often start outwardly, with geography and landscape - from New England and Nova Scotia, where Bishop grew up, to Florida and Brazil, where she later lived and found her great passion in another woman, Lota de Macedo Soares - and move ... Weiterlesen

Allen Ginsberg: Howl - A Graphic Novel

Animated by Eric Drooker. USA 2010, 224 pp. illustrated color, brochure, € 21.95
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Harper Collins
First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's »Howl« is a prophetic masterpiece - an epic raging against dehumanizing society that overcame censorship trials and obscenity charges to become one of the most widely read poems of the 20th century. Allen Ginsburg's legendary and groundbreaking epic poem, »Howl«, is now a graphic novel - a tie-in to the major motion picture starring ... Weiterlesen

Juan A.H. Brasas: Walt Whitman's Mystical Ethics of Comradeship

Homosexuality and the Marginality of Friendship at the Crossroads of Modernity. USA 2010, 206pp., brochure, € 35.95
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A giant of American letters, Walt Whitman is known both as a poet and, to many, as an early precursor of the gay liberation movement. This book recovers for today's reader a lost Whitman, delving into the original context and intentions of his poetry and prose. As the author shows, Whitman saw himself as a founder of a new religion. ... Weiterlesen

Jeremy Reed: Bona Drag

UK 2009, 126 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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»Bona Drag«, a rich, brilliantly inventive collection of poems covering every detail of the poet's obsessive life, from the colour of Posh Spice's heels, to London street encounters, underworld friends, urban survival tactics, neuroscientific concepts and extraterrestrials, more than confirms J.G. Ballard's assessment of Reed, as »the most gifted poet working today, an extraordinary talent.«