Queer Troublemakers: The Poetics of Flippancy (Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics)

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, sexuality and genre, Bussey-Chamberlain constructs a queer poetics of flippancy that can subvert ideas of success and failure, affect and affectation, performance and performativity, poetry and being.

• | Author: Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain, Daniel Katz
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: January 28, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 208 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1350215422
• | ISBN-13: 9781350215429