LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne.
Drawing together writing from Catullus to Sappho,from Arthur Rimbaud to Anne Lister and Armistead Maupin,translator Frank Wynne has collected eighty of the finest works representing queer love by LGBTQ authors.
These pieces straddle the spectrum of queer experience,from Verlaine's sonnet in praise of his lover's anus and Emily Dickinson's exhortation of a woman's beauty,to Alison Bechdel's graphic novel of her coming out,Juno Dawson's reflections on gender and Oscar Wilde's'De Profundis'.
With stories,poems,extracts and scenes from countries the world over,Queer is an unabashed and unapologetic anthology,which gives voice to those often silenced.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781789542349Number of pages: 624Dimensions: 240 x 170 mm
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A landmark anthology of queer writing... It brings together an unusually broad range of voices from across the ages and the globe to form a survey of queer literature'A groundbreaking collectionA landmark collection of LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday,featuring powerful voices in many literary forms,from Homer and Sappho to Andrew McMillan and Niviaq Korneliussen. Many of the writers included were new to me,not least because the book manages to avoid the lazy,Anglocentric default that usually bedevils collections of this type. The resulting volume is more surprising,more various and richer for itA spectacular anthology
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