Seattle Picks: Transgender and Genderqueer Poets
This list of poetry by transgender and genderqueer poets was created by librarians at The Seattle Public Library. (Updated March 2022)
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Of Mongrelitude
Brolaski captures the terrain of poetry's future. These poems look backward within Western literary traditions while projecting ahead to what's yet arriving. -- Rain Taxi
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Advice From the Lights
Burt mines a nearly limitless store of empathy, lending voices to living things and inanimate objects alike. -- Library Journal
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Water I Won't Touch
Candrilli is both deliberate and dangerous, a thrilling combination. -- Booklist
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A Year
The luminous latest from Charles (feeld) unfolds in a series of short lyrics over the course of a year, holding time's progression in a delicate balance with a changing self. -- Publishers Weekly
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Recombinant
Investigates female and genderqueer lineage via labor smuggling and trafficking. -- publisher's copy
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The Book of Frank
In direct, plainspoken language, Conrad creates a world of gothic intimacy and grotesque misdeed. -- Bookforum
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Wound From the Mouth of A Wound
The glittering, energetic debut from greathouse seeks to honor and give voices to all bodies. -- Publishers Weekly
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Amnesiac
Framing the body and the self through the trope of portraiture, Harris engages the recurrent themes of this collection: corporeality, racism, violence, war, and the excavation of memories. -- Lambda Literary
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Slingshot
The poems present themselves as homemade weapons (like slingshots) against malign parents, authority figures, structural racism and fears of the other. -- New York Times Book Review
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Reacquainted With Life
Resilience, has never sounded sexier. -- publisher's copy
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