Butch Geography

Poems

Fiction & Literature, Poetry
Cover of the book Butch Geography by Stacey Waite, Tupelo Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Stacey Waite ISBN: 9781936797349
Publisher: Tupelo Press Publication: January 28, 2014
Imprint: Tupelo Press Language: English
Author: Stacey Waite
ISBN: 9781936797349
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Publication: January 28, 2014
Imprint: Tupelo Press
Language: English

In her Los Angeles Review of Books essay “Who Is Who: Pronouns, Gender, and Merging Selves,” Dana Levin describes Stacey Waite’s fusion of gender identities: “Pseudonyms, heteronyms, personae, all the ventriloquizing literary arts; point of view and tonal shifts: these are tools for speakers and speaking. But the sentence too has a voice: ‘i will not be the kind of boy who can not bear the memory of her body’ ... This is [Waite’s] genius ... to take innocuous syntactical phrasing and change the players mid-sentence — to get around English’s pronominal either/or by creating a syntactical both/and...”

 

“In this arresting collection, Stacey Waite is a pathfinder, charting with disarming honesty, humor, pathos and willful perplexity the uncertain terrain of gender in ways that shatter assumptions, unsettle easy presumptions, and yet, through the sheer grace of her craft and deft language, that open us to the beauty of our strange human enterprise.” — Kwame Dawes

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

In her Los Angeles Review of Books essay “Who Is Who: Pronouns, Gender, and Merging Selves,” Dana Levin describes Stacey Waite’s fusion of gender identities: “Pseudonyms, heteronyms, personae, all the ventriloquizing literary arts; point of view and tonal shifts: these are tools for speakers and speaking. But the sentence too has a voice: ‘i will not be the kind of boy who can not bear the memory of her body’ ... This is [Waite’s] genius ... to take innocuous syntactical phrasing and change the players mid-sentence — to get around English’s pronominal either/or by creating a syntactical both/and...”

 

“In this arresting collection, Stacey Waite is a pathfinder, charting with disarming honesty, humor, pathos and willful perplexity the uncertain terrain of gender in ways that shatter assumptions, unsettle easy presumptions, and yet, through the sheer grace of her craft and deft language, that open us to the beauty of our strange human enterprise.” — Kwame Dawes

More books from Poetry

Cover of the book Stones in a River by Stacey Waite
Cover of the book Seasons of a Refractive Mind: Poems and Aphorisms by Stacey Waite
Cover of the book Danny Boy by Stacey Waite
Cover of the book The Beauty of Listening by Stacey Waite
Cover of the book The Aldous Huxley Poetry Collection by Stacey Waite
Cover of the book Ageless Echoes (a book of poems) by Stacey Waite
Cover of the book I Tumble Through the Diamond Dust by Stacey Waite
Cover of the book The Two-Minute Revolution by Stacey Waite
Cover of the book Found and Lost by Stacey Waite
Cover of the book Poesia a fondo perduto - Il noioso diario della solitudine by Stacey Waite
Cover of the book The Morning Bell Issue #1 by Stacey Waite
Cover of the book Dreams Seasoned to Their Journeys End by Stacey Waite
Cover of the book Bread and Butter by Stacey Waite
Cover of the book The Next Hundred by Stacey Waite
Cover of the book The Passing Show by Stacey Waite
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy