Gay & lesbian poetry in our time : an anthology / edited by Carl Morse & Joan Larkin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morse, Carl.

Larkin, Joan.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay men--Poetry.

Gay men.

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Gay people's writings, American.

Lesbians--Poetry.

Lesbians.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxviii, 401 pages : portraits ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Gay and lesbian poetry in our time

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, [1988]

Contents:

To the Bone / The Women Who Hate Me / When I Drink I Become the Joy of Faggots / DOROTHY ALLISON

Sonnet No 21 / Sonnet No 22 / Monologue of a Dying Beast / MARK AMEEN

What Every Boy Knows / ANTLER

We Call Them Greasers / Interface / GLORIA ANZALDUA

"Lay your sleeping head, my love" / A Lullaby / from "In Time of War" / W. H. AUDEN

The Rape Poem / TOMMI AVICOLLI

Guilt, Desire and Love / A Lover's Question / JAMES BALDWIN

How to Dress Like a Scary Dyke / How to Dress Like a Femmy Dyke / The Hot Dog Poem / JANE BARNES

Blueberry Man / DAVID BERGMAN

Confessional, part I / The Sacrifice / FRANK BIDART

The Most Beautiful Woman at My Highschool Reunion / ELLEN MARIE BISSERT

Cheers, Cheers for Old Cha Cha Ass / "English was only a second language..." / Invisible History / WALTA BORAWSKI

Her Name Is Helen / BETH BRANT

Wondrous the Merge / JAMES BROUGHTON

She Loves / OLGA BROUMAS

Christmas with the Holy Family / Look Away Child / SUSAN CAVIN

Why Are Daddies So Mean / JANE CHAMBERS

The Wings of a Wild Goose / CHRYSTOS

Of Althea and Flaxie / palm leaf of Mary Magdalene / The Older American / CHERYL CLARKE

After Touch / JAN CLAUSEN

Being Aware / My Past / DENNIS COOPER

Older Men / ALFRED CORN

A Gay Psalm from Fort Valley / LOUIE CREW

de ambiente / TATIANA DE LA TIERRA

The Sisters / ALEXIS DE VEAUX

I expect you think this huge dark coat / An eye for an eye / C. M. DONALD

My Mother Would Be a Falconress / ROBERT DUNCAN

Curing Homosexuality / JIM EVERHARD

Unwanted / World War II / EDWARD FIELD

Assumption About the Harlem Brown Baby / SALIH MICHAEL FISHER

Deadly Weapon / BEATRIX GATES

The Lion for Real / Howl, part I / Please Master / Kaddish, part IV / ALLEN GINSBERG

My Chakabuku Mama / JEWELLE GOMEZ

Just How Crazy Brenda Is / Wedding Reception / MELINDA GOODMAN

Long Lines: Youth and Age / I Planned to Have a Border of Lavender / PAUL GOODMAN

A History of Lesbianism / A Woman Is Talking to Death / a funeral plainsong from a younger woman to an older woman / Talkers in a Dream Doorway / JUDY GRAHN

Oh God Forbid / FREDDIE GREENFIELD

An Answer to a Man's Question, "What Can I Do About Women's Liberation?" / The Song of the Woman with Her Parts Coming Out / Waiting for Truth / I Wake Thinking of Myself as a Man / SUSAN GRIFFIN

As Expected / Courage, a Tale / The Cherry Tree / Lament / THOM GUNN

Fifteen to Eighteen / 1974 / Three Sonnets for Iva / MARILYN HACKER

The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window / JOY HARJO

Star Trek III / The Grace of Animals / RICHARD HARTEIS

Cordon Negro / To Some Supposed Brothers / Isn't It Funny? / Family Jewels / ESSEX HEMPHILL

from "March" in Academic Festival Overtures / DARYL HINE

Again for Hephaistos, the Last Time / RICHARD HOWARD

Cafe: 3 A.M. / Harlem / Today / Stars / LANGSTON HUGHES

No. 106 from 108 Tales of a Po 'Buckra / WILL INMAN

Poem About My Rights / Untitled / JUNE JORDAN

Winkte / MAURICE KENNY

death camp / From the Monkey House and Other Cages, Monkey II / IRENA KLEPFISZ

Up / BILL KUSHNER

Rhyme of My Inheritance / Rape / Clifton / JOAN LARKIN

How to Watch Your Brother Die / Times Square Poems / MICHAEL LASSELL

Power / Love Poem / Outlines / Political Relations / AUDRE LORDE

from Letters from a Married Man / DON MAGER

Quarry/Rock / Christmas 1962 / PAUL MARIAH

Partial Accounts / Tree Marriage / WILLIAM MEREDITH

Days of 1941 and '44 / Up and Down / JAMES MERRILL

from The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions / LARRY MITCHELL

First Time: 1950 / Memoir / HONOR MOORE

Feed the Mexican Back into Her / "For you, mama..." / CHERRIE MORAGA

On the Watergate Women / from "The Hallowing of Hell" / ROBIN MORGAN

Dream of the Artfairy / Fairy Straighttalk / Scenes of Childhood / CARL MORSE

A Woman Like Me / EILEEN MYLES

From The Travels of Gulliver (revised edition) / SUNITI NAMJOSHI

I'm Not a Man / We Bumped Off Your Friend the Poet / You Must Have Been a Sensational Baby / HAROLD NORSE

Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets / Having a Coke with You / Ode to Joy / FRANK O'HARA

Some One Liked Me When I Was Twelve / Lepers Cry / PETER ORLOVSKY

Some Boys / Militerotics / Metaphor as Illness / On Finding Out That the One You Slept with the Night Before Was Murdered the Next Day / CHARLES ORTLEB

"Where Will You Be?" / Prologue from "Legacy" / My Brother / PAT PARKER

Surgery / KENNETH PITCHFORD

A Tardy Epithalamium for E. and N. / RALPH POMEROY

Waulking Song: Two / The Child Taken from the Mother / MINNIE BRUCE PRATT

Partial Luetic History of an Individual at Risk / J. M. REGAN

Twenty-One Love Poems / Yom Kippur 1984 / ADRIENNE RICH

St. Roach / Looking at Each Other / The Speed of Darkness / Then / MURIEL RUKEYSER

The Fairies Are Dancing All Over the World / MICHAEL RUMAKER

The Bridge Poem / KATE RUSHIN

Triple Trouble: an exorcism / ASSOTTO SAINT

Questionnaire from "Notes from the First Year" / SUSAN SAXE

"an alarming new development" / the house is old / RON SCHREIBER

Growing Dark / Tom / Sleep / JAMES SCHUYLER

Pubescence at 39 / VICKIE SEARS

Exorcism of the Straight/Man/Demon / AARON SHURIN

Women Who Cook / ANITA SKEEN

The Shower / LINDA SMUKLER

Poet to Tiger / Four-word Lines / MAY SWENSON

A Chinese Banquet / KITTY TSUI

Pants / LISA VICE

Making Love to Myself / JAMES L. WHITE

My Mother / A Poem for Trapped Things / JOHN WIENERS

Life Story / You and I / TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Visitation Rights / HEATHER WISHIK

Letters Come to Prison / SHAHID (ROOSEVELT WILLIAMSON).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-392) and index.

Lambda Literary Awards - Poetry, Winner, 1989

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0312022131

9780312022136

0312038364

9780312038366

OCLC:

17874960