The book closes with a coda that turns to a set of poems and other writings by William Carlos Williams – including, of course, “This Is Just to Say” – to differentiate between the queer pleasures the book investigates and the profoundly heteronormative world of that famous poem. Williams’s work offers a clear example of how the insights of this book might have purchase beyond the texts and contexts that inspired them, and beyond the fields in which the book’s argument is grounded.