Muster Points / Lucas Crawford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crawford, Lucas, author.

Series:

Brave & brilliant series.

Brave and Brilliant Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trans men--Poetry.

Trans men.

Nostalgia--Poetry.

Nostalgia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (98 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press, [2023]

Summary:

In March 2020, Lucas Crawford was quarantined at the Banff Centre for the Arts, coughing like a good fat asthmatic at high altitude, in the middle of a breakup, not knowing when or how he would get home, or where home would be when he got home. What does a depressed professor do, stranded in a dorm room? Write poems. Muster Points is a frank discussion of pleasure, plain, nostalgia, desire, and health from a “fancy academic” who refuses to shy away from the blood and sweat of depression or the glorious fluids of queer sex. These poems bring us on a trans boy’s trips through the sharp-shard runs of heterosexual marriages, into weird rural masculinities and their fraught survival, into the love language of regret and persistent, inconvenient desire. As Crawford packs his two suitcases and bangs into past selves, tenuous futures, and a global emergency, he tracks his collisions toughly and tenderly, documenting every relic and clue. He travels to the core of his sexual politic, through the front door and to the back of his mind. Muster Points arouses thoughts and provokes them, using visceral language and unequivocal vulnerability to conjure a place where all who enter may be seen as they are seen.

Contents:

Front Matter

Forewarnings

Front Holes

Carly Rae Bedlam

Retrospective Horoscope for March 2020

Dorm-Room Isolation

Ohbijou

Emotion

Lesser-Known Wellness Workbooks

Statement on Potential Contributions to Diversity

Pandemic Lullaby

Boy Problems

Run Away with Me

Phone Therapy #1

I have my Suspicions

Nose Job

Please Don’t Swab me Gently

Feast and Famine

I

II

III

IV

V

Further Gastropoetics

A Better Poem About Peanut Butter—

Ways to Spread Strawberries

Fucking with Economy and Grace

Third-Date Paint Chips Black

Mother’s Day 2020

Seminar in Modernism and Opera

Overture

Salome

Oedipus Rex

Falstaff

Madama Butterfly

Porgy and Bess

Recommended Supplementary Listening

Salome (Reprise)

Tristan und Isolde

Muster Points

Instructions for Identifying your Location if Lost

“You will Be Travelling to Distant Lands for Business Purposes”

Tigerlily Perfumery, 973 Valencia St.

Meeting of the Annapolis Valley Boys Club

The Westin

Girls who Like Ani Difranco

The Foley Artist

One Day, your Grandmother—

Pet Names

Report from the Interior

Please Children, Break Some Coasters and Hearts

Acknowledgements

Author's Bios

Brave & Brilliant Series

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Crawford, Lucas Muster Points

ISBN:

9781773854540

1773854542

9781773854557

1773854550

OCLC:

1375567812