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."--Bloomsbury Publishing. Cover Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The Poetics of Flippancy 2 ‘He Cannot Understand Women. I Can’: Gertrude Stein and the Camp Butch 3 ‘There’s Nothing Metaphysical about It’: Frank O’Hara’s Flippant Manifesto and the Poetry of Tight Trousers 4 ‘Who Are These Idiots Writing These Poems?’: Eileen Myles’ Pornographic Tone and Mutable Categories 5 ‘Was Harry a Woman? Was I a Straight Lady?’: Tensions of Heteronormativity, Assimilation and the Second Person Conclusion References Index