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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Boy With Thorn
Laurentiis's debut collection, winner of the 2014 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, oscillates between a lament for the brutalization of black bodies throughout history and a celebration of the pleasures of sexuality and desire. -- Publishers Weekly
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Good Stock Strange Blood
Martin (Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life) contemplates the corporeal aspects of black identity, including scars from historical traumas and pain from fresher wounds. -- Publishers Weekly
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And Then I Got Fired
Feel free to scream directly into this book if you need to. It won't judge you, promise! This book gets grief. The good, the bad and the snotty noses. -- publisher's copy
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Evolution
Myles has long excelled at capturing outsiderness, and feelings of being lost and misunderstood are plenty evident here. -- Publishers Weekly
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Since I Moved In
A new & revised edition of the classic book by pathbreaking poet & cultural critic Trace Peterson. -- publisher's copy
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HULL
Hull employs the language of dreams and fraught journeys, laying bare the historical and current threats to black and queer bodies. -- Foreword Reviews
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Wanting in Arabic
The author dwells on the contradictions of a transsexual poetics, in its attendant disfigurations of lyric, ghazal, l'ecriture feminine, and, in particular, her own sexed voice. -- publisher's copy
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While They Sleep (Under the Bed Is Another Country)
Written in dialogic fragments and interspersed with prose poems reflecting on the lasting impact of colonial trauma. -- publisher's copy
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Some Animal
Mining his own life and those of his queer kin, Shipley's book is one of hard truths, lovingly rendered. -- Publishers Weekly
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Even This Page Is White
Shraya's poetry, like her prose work, is gifted, evocative, assured, and maintains a tightrope balance between nuance and bluntness. -- Publishers Weekly
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