Connor & Seal
Paperback 78 pages English March 10, 2020
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Inspired by Rita Dove's groundbreaking Thomas and Beulah, Connor & Seal is a masterful queering of poetic lineage. With oracular grace and whimsy, these poems innovate the public and private axes of gay love in a tumescent future. We meet Connor, a native Nebraskan and fledgling grant writer, and Seal, a financial analyst from Kingston, Jamaica, as they flummox the space between desire and demise, "the sun again a big orange pill / stuck in the blue throat of the sky." Connor & Seal serves as almanac to a time not far off, of techno-queer bots, state-sponsored violence, and individual resistance. With imaginative dexterity and stylistic flexibility, each poem in Connor & Seal becomes a cipher of the labor of tomorrow's construction: "a bench where two old faggots had to stop," an emblem of a future history, "as quiet as the siren / is alarming."
- Author:
- Jee Leong Koh
- Publisher:
- Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC
- Publication Date:
- March 10, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 78 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1943977755
- ISBN-13:
- 9781943977758