It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.” Waite and Kelly are a few of our vital poet-architects, and generations of readers will look back on them as poets who wrote the future. While “great,” like “best,” is an inherently subjective term, I like to think of my Aunt Linda and me as two distinctive facets of that audience. For as much thanatos as you will find in this collection, there is also eros in abundance. Art Is Long, Planets Short: The Lasting Power of Carol Ann Duffy’s “The Woman in the Moon”, Love in the Time of Online Literary Exclusives. The name field is required. I suspect my aunt would like these poems, too, though she might balk at the way they speak directly to the reader, poets as poets addressing the nature of poetry. , she says, pulling him back / to his seat. She tries not to notice the meanness in his voice, but we understand that she does as she hears. In 2001, I was heading to graduate school to pursue a Master’s degree in creative writing. On July 1, 2016, Mississippi HB 1523 was signed into law. Antelope and bison, What would it mean to accept that we are more than we’ve been told we are? When I became a parent a few years ago, I listened to many people tell me some version of this narrative:   I didn’t think there was anything to gender differences either until I had a son   and saw how he naturally just wanted to play with cars (or,  insert “daughter”  and “dolls”). /, Do not wander. How can a poem best speak to HB 1523, and to our daily lives as gendered beings? When the mother corrects the boy, the reader understands why the boy is so frustrated. The final lines will always haunt me: I don’t know what to make of the sister. As Audre Lorde tells us, “Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. I, man, am a girl.”  They make you want to read on, don’t they, these fearless identity poets? Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway. Please enter your name. I am is pushups-on-the-basement-floor, I value Duhamel’s commitment to literary potential, honoring the future of American poetry as well as its past. Some of us ring you up/ while some of us crisscross a parking lot/ to gather the shopping carts into one long,/ rolling, clamorous and glittering backbone.”  She would have liked his perspective. I tried to imagine what that gift might be. Waite’s poem asks us this question, and Kelly’s poem, in its own way, answers:  “If you could bear / being a person, you would no longer be / an iron bluff. The poem begins: (Graywolf Press, 2016), Kelly plays with categories of all kinds, and “Out West” argues that our bodies contain a kind of epic openness to the natural world—to animals in  particular: to any wandering thing. Joseph Millar In the Womb -- Dear Gender -- To a Woman Who Has Never Been My Lover -- XY -- Love Poem to Androgyny -- Fixing My Voice -- To a Woman Who Has Never Been My Lover -- At a Rest Stop in Central Pennsylvania, a Man Chokes Me ... -- Reading Stone Butch Blues -- Talk Show -- Penis Envy -- From Laramie -- For Tomboys -- A Poem in Response to Those Who Argue That ... -- On the Occasion of Being Mistaken for a Man by a Pregnant Woman ... -- Dear Gender -- IV. A few months into kindergarten, he confided to me, while wearing a pink princess dress and tiara, “I can’t wear this around all my friends. As. Butch Geography -- When the Dead Ask for Maps -- Wedding Photo, 1968 -- Dear Gender -- Poem for My First Girlfriend -- Poem for My First Girlfriend -- Prince, the Androgynous -- If I Were a Man, She\'d Be in Love with Me -- On the Occasion of Being Mistaken for a Man by the Cashier ... -- Coming Out in Porch Light -- On the Occasion of Being Mistaken for a Man by a Waiter ...\"@, On the Occasion of Being Mistaken for a Woman by a Therapist ... -- My Mother\'s Hands -- As a Woman Sometimes Does to a Man -- Unlearning the Body with My Grandfather.\"@, On the Occasion of Being Mistaken for a Man by Security Personnel ... -- What It Means to Inherit -- What the Fire Teaches -- Dear Gender -- Choke -- III. the boy who will become a boy, except for She had no context for the lively poetic conversation of the present day, which The Best American Poetry series both records and amplifies. I’m always partial to the meta-poems myself, like Adrienne Su’s “On Writing” or Major Jackson’s “Why I Write Poetry.”  Su begins, “A love poem risks becoming a ruin” and later posits, “Who cares about/ a stranger’s bliss?”  In his litany of reasons why he turns to poetry, Major Jackson presents a credible answer to Su’s question: “Because I have not thanked enough.”  Isn’t sharing your joy with others always a valid expression of gratitude? Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. One of its provisions states, “Male (man) or female (woman) refer to an individual’s immutable biological sex as objectively determined by anatomy and genetics at time of birth.” This bill codifies discrimination toward anyone whose gender does not  fit the sex they were assigned at birth. The closing image of Hernandez’s poem is also an apt metaphor for what Denise Duhamel has done here: how she has assembled such vibrant and eclectic voices into one “long, rolling, clamorous and glittering” collection—a collection as cohesive as it is diverse, as unique as it is unified. Stacey Waite is a poet—focusing on both slam and written verse—who also works as an Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. the black bear winters. We seemed to pass each other like ships in the night, or more precisely, like ferry boats in the Fauntleroy harbor. Do you like epistolary poems? Eve Sedgwick wrote that “‘queer’ can refer to: the open mesh of possibilities, gaps, overlaps, dissonances and resonances, lapses and excesses of meaning when the constituent elements of anyone’s gender, of anyone’s sexuality aren’t made (or can’t be made) to signify monolithically.” Here, the body is a “wilderness” that contains multitudes, just as the self  is. Denise Duhamel pledges in her introduction: “This edition represents excellence and inclusivity, neither at the expense of the other.”  Let’s test this premise. Learn more ››. Stacey Waite’s “The Kind of Man I Am at the DMV” (Butch Geography, Tupelo Press, 2013) dives headfirst into this question as the speaker encounters a boy in a Midwestern DMV: Mommy, that man is a girl, says the boy pointing his finger, like a narrow spotlight, And, as the speaker struggles with gender’s too-tidy story, she also lets us see that the boy’s words affect her. In this volume, I try to imagine what poem my Aunt Linda would say is her favorite. Separate up to five addresses with commas (,). It is no mistake that the poem is set here, and the further our gender or sexual identity is from “M” or “F,” the more limited we are by claim- ing one or the other. David Caplan Waite and Kelly both imagine new ways of being for those who have been measured, targeted, or lost. Create lists, bibliographies and reviews: Your request to send this item has been completed. The E-mail Address(es) you entered is(are) not in a valid format. OK.  You might like Anne Marie Rooney’s “Lake Sonnet,” which is also a birthday poem and a love poem: “It was July. The den at my grandmother’s house was filled with her art books and brochures from museums she had visited in Europe. The poem’s action is rooted in one of the most public American spaces, the sticky, dim-gray DMV. taking comfort in being home Guest editor Denise Duhamel writes in her introduction to The Best American Poetry 2013, “Walt Whitman knew that in order to have great poets we need to have great audiences. I think she would have liked Richard Blanco’s inaugural poem very much. Butch Defines Feminism under the Following Conditions --Changing the Names --The Clownfish --The Kind of Man I Am at the DMV --Explication: Intersexual --Biographies of Hands --Sandhill Crane Information Session --Conversation with My Student, James --Letter from Thomas Beattie to the Media --Dear Gender --Elegy --Gendered

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