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Chapter 8 - Queer Poetics

Deviant Swerves, in Three

from Part III - Representation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 June 2020

By
Ren Ellis Neyra
Edited by
Siobhan B. Somerville
Siobhan B. Somerville
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Summary

This synesthetic chapter enacts listens for queer poetics in theory, queer theory in poetics. Divers semantic, physical, and spatial positions swerve on formal constraint, and in the swerves, skrrts, and twerks that streak verses, piss, ideas, and tire tracks across this chapter, a sense of the range of queer desire emerges. Written with a viscerally formal, Caribbean, Latinx, Diasporic Black Poetics imaginary, this chapter waters the unruly growths of (indigenous, black, and insurgent) geographic and grammatical grounds.

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SwervePoetic Listeningskrt skrttorqueread libssemantic insurgencyporous protrusionsfemale anal eroticismconstraint
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The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies , pp. 125 - 141
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Amin, Kadji, Musser, Amber Jamilla, and Pérez, Roy. “Queer Form: Aesthetics, Race, and the Violences of the Social.” ASAP/Journal 2, no. 2 (2017): 227–39.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cole, Henri. Blackbird and Wolf. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2007.Google Scholar
Doyle, Jennifer. “Capturing Semenya.” The Sport Spectacle, August 16, 2016, https://thesportspectacle.com/2016/08/16/capturing-semenya/.Google Scholar
Edwards, Brent Hayes. “Notes on Poetics Regarding Mackey’s Song.” Callaloo 23, no. 2 (2000): 572–91.Google Scholar
Hayden, Robert. Collected Poems. Edited by Glaysher, Frederick. New York: Liveright, 2013.Google Scholar
Las Nietas de Nonó. “Las Nietas de Nonó.” Interview by Sofía Gallisá Muriente. Terremoto, 6, May 30, 2016, http://terremoto.mx/article/interview-with-las-nietas-de-nono/.Google Scholar
Salas Rivera, Raquel. lo terciario / the tertiary. Oakland, CA: Timeless, Infinite Light, 2018.Google Scholar
Sharpe, Christina. In The Wake: On Blackness and Being. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016.Google Scholar
Stone-Richards, Michael. Logics of Separation: Exile and Transcendence in Aesthetic Modernity. Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, 2011.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tolbert, TC, and Peterson, Trace, eds. Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. Callicoon, NY: Nightboat Books, 2013.Google Scholar
Viego, Antonio. Dead Subjects: Towards a Politics of Loss in Latino Studies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007.Google Scholar
Young Thug. Jeffery. Atlantic Records, 075678663024, 2016. MP3.Google Scholar

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