Description
Poetry. Essays. LGBTQIA Studies. The five poem-essays of Chris Nealon's THE SHORE give space and voice to the complexity of contemporary life, admitting bafflement and dismay but also creating openings for indiscreet hope. Queer and anti-capitalist, they urge us not to be ruled by our fears, while always ethically navigating the forces—race, class, age, gender, and others—that put us each in different places of power. Nimbly exploring connections among beauty, friendship, and politics, THE SHORE gives our era of crisis a language at once vernacular and philosophical, in a form that's both teeming and fluid.
Author Bio
Chris Nealon is Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of the poetry books THE SHORE (Wave Books, 2020), HETERONOMY (Edge Books, 2014), PLUMMET (Edge Books, 2009), and THE JOYOUS AGE (Black Square Editions, 2004), as well as two books of literary criticism, Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall (Duke, 2001) and The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in The American Century (Harvard, 2011). He lives in Washington, DC.
Author City: WASHINGTON, DC USA