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Poetry Is Queer (Audiobook)

by Kirby

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  • Kirby’s Poetry Is Queer is a work that refuses to be contained, boxed-in, defined by any terms that might seek to diminish or limit its insistence on possibility. A manifesto for life as art, art as life, one that witnesses, repairs, and defends the self in all its time-spanning facets — beauty, liberation, grief, survival, transcendence — Poetry is Queer is a gift from a rebel elder who is willing to look back with honesty and to reach forward with hope.

    DAMIAN ROGERS, Author of An Alphabet for Joanna


    In Kirby’s devastating and erotic redress of queerness, the beloved poet maps their homosexual body/world set around poems by queer contemporaries across decades. What emerges is Poetry Is Queer, beautiful, sexual, and flamboyantly, unapologetically gay. “Thank you Saturday Night Cock God!” This is the best kind of museum.

    JOSHUA ESCOBAR, author of Bareback Nightfall

    KIRBY
    POETRY IS QUEER
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    Poetry is Queer is a kaleidoscope of sexual outlaws, gay icons, Sapphic poets, and great lovers, real and imagined, conjured like gateway drugs to a queer world. Claiming the word QUEER for those “who self-proclaim the authority of their own bodies in defiance of church and state,” Kirby pays tribute to gay touchstones while embodying both their work and joy. From gazing upon street boys with constant companion C.P. Cavafy, to end of day observances with Frank O’Hara, to mowing Walt Whitman’s grass, Poetry Is Queer is a hybrid-genre memoir like no other. (Palimpsest)

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There is but a single success story in my life. I never managed to kill my fairy.
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Queer: a person who self-proclaims the authority of their own body in defiance of church and state.
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But these cards with the colours on them, they were beautiful. I could look at them all day. And she did.
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I'll never trust any man who doesn't wonder, know, how they themselves are "entered" during intercourse.
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Could I have been shy? O, darlin's, she's only ever shy when she sees someone she might want to date more than to trick with just once. So yes.
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The things I'm not saying The things I'm saying
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Poetry. You don't read it? Get it? It's queer. Fucks with language. Is other. Your lack of a handkerchief.

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POETRY IS QUEER
PALIMPSEST PRESS

Complete. Unabridged. Read by the author.

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released August 15, 2022

Produced and recorded by Don Pyle
By special arrangement with Palimpsest Press
Cover art: Philip Hare

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Kirby Toronto, Ontario

KIRBY is the author of she (KFB, 2024) LAST LICKS (Anstruther, 2024) POETRY IS QUEER (Palimpsest, 2021) What Do You Want To Be Called? (Anstruther, 2020) THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF (Permanent Sleep, 2019) & publisher at knife | fork | book

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