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In the world of My Gay Middle Ages, Chaucer and Boethius are the secret-sharers of A.W. Strouse's "gay lifestyle." Where many scholars of the Middle Ages would "get in from behind" on cultural history, Strouse instead does a "reach around." He eschews academic "queer theory" as yet another tedious, normative framework, and writes in the long, fruity tradition of irresponsible, homo-medievalism (a lineage that includes luminaries like Oscar Wilde, who was sustained by his amateur readings of Dante and Abelard during the darks days of his incarceration for crimes of "gross indecency"). Strouse experiences medieval literature and philosophy as a part of his everyday life, and in these prose poems he makes the case for regarding the Middle Ages as a kind of technology of self-preservation, a posture through which to spiritualize the petty indignities of modern urban life. With a Warholian flair for insouciant name-dropping and a Steinian appetite for syntactic perversion, Strouse monumentalizes the medieval within the contemporary and the contemporary within the medieval."Today, almost nobody reads Boethius, which if you ask me is a crying shame. Because Boethius is so gay. First of all, the heroine of the Consolation is this great big fierce diva, whose name is Lady Philosophy. She's a Lady, and she doesn't stand for anybody's crap. At the beginning of the book, Boethius is crying, all alone in prison, depressed that he's lonely and loveless and is going to be killed. Lady Philosophy descends from the heavens, à la Glinda the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz. The first thing Boethius notices about her is that she's wearing an amazing dress with Greek letters embroidered on it--they stand for practical and theoretical philosophy. Her dress has been torn to shreds by the hands of uncouth philosophers. They didn't know how to treat a lady." (from "My Boethius").

Biographical poetry, American. --- Prose poems, American. --- Middle Ages --- Gay men --- prose poetry --- gay life --- memoir --- medievalism

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In the world of My Gay Middle Ages, Chaucer and Boethius are the secret-sharers of A.W. Strouse's "gay lifestyle." Where many scholars of the Middle Ages would "get in from behind" on cultural history, Strouse instead does a "reach around." He eschews academic "queer theory" as yet another tedious, normative framework, and writes in the long, fruity tradition of irresponsible, homo-medievalism (a lineage that includes luminaries like Oscar Wilde, who was sustained by his amateur readings of Dante and Abelard during the darks days of his incarceration for crimes of "gross indecency"). Strouse experiences medieval literature and philosophy as a part of his everyday life, and in these prose poems he makes the case for regarding the Middle Ages as a kind of technology of self-preservation, a posture through which to spiritualize the petty indignities of modern urban life. With a Warholian flair for insouciant name-dropping and a Steinian appetite for syntactic perversion, Strouse monumentalizes the medieval within the contemporary and the contemporary within the medieval."Today, almost nobody reads Boethius, which if you ask me is a crying shame. Because Boethius is so gay. First of all, the heroine of the Consolation is this great big fierce diva, whose name is Lady Philosophy. She's a Lady, and she doesn't stand for anybody's crap. At the beginning of the book, Boethius is crying, all alone in prison, depressed that he's lonely and loveless and is going to be killed. Lady Philosophy descends from the heavens, à la Glinda the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz. The first thing Boethius notices about her is that she's wearing an amazing dress with Greek letters embroidered on it--they stand for practical and theoretical philosophy. Her dress has been torn to shreds by the hands of uncouth philosophers. They didn't know how to treat a lady." (from "My Boethius").

Biographical poetry, American. --- Prose poems, American. --- Middle Ages --- Gay men --- prose poetry --- gay life --- memoir --- medievalism

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Wandering in Circles examinesthe definition of redemption in Venedikt Erofeev's Moskva-Petushki. By placing Erofeev's poema in conversation withother travel narratives from Russia and the West, the book explores the meaningof redemption across societies and cultures.

Redemption in literature. --- Erofeev, Venedikt, --- Aleksandr Radishchev. --- Dante Alighieri. --- Grief. --- John Milton. --- Journeys. --- Parody. --- Redemption. --- Russia. --- Travel Narratives. --- Venedikt Erofeev. --- comparative literature. --- criticism. --- politics. --- prose poetry. --- religious imagery.

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The book provides a comprehensive summary of the existing approaches to the prose poem and offers an original conception of it, remaining close to the poetic texts by following the intricate line of development of the prose poem, in Modern Polish and European literary history and literary genre theory.

Agnieszka --- atemporality --- Case --- cycle --- Genre --- genre theory --- Jakob --- Kluba --- Krzysztof --- lyricism --- Nycz --- Poem --- Poland --- Polish --- Prose --- prose poetry --- Ryszard --- Smólski --- Study --- subjectivity --- Ziguras

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This landmark collection brings together poetry, performance pieces, "traditional" verse, prose poems, and other poetical texts from Jackson Mac Low's lifetime in art. The works span the years from 1937, beginning with "Thing of Beauty," his first poem, until his death in 2004 and demonstrate his extraordinary range as well as his unquenchable enthusiasm. Mac Low is widely acknowledged as one of the major figures in twentieth-century American poetry, with much of his work ranging into the spheres of music, dance, theater, performance, and the visual arts. Comparable in stature to such giants as Robert Creeley, John Ashbery, and Allen Ginsberg, Mac Low is often associated with composer John Cage, with whom he shared a delight in work derived from "chance operations." This volume, edited by Anne Tardos, his wife and frequent collaborator, offers a balanced arrangement of early, middle, and late work, designed to convey not just the range but also the progressions and continuities of his writings and "writingways."

Experimental poetry. --- Performance art --- Arts, Modern --- Happenings (Art) --- Performing arts --- Avant-garde poetry --- Literature, Experimental --- Poetry --- 20th century poetry. --- allen ginsberg. --- american poet. --- contemporary poetry. --- creative writer. --- creative writing. --- dance. --- famous poet. --- john ashbery. --- mfa. --- modern poetry. --- music. --- performance art. --- performance. --- poet. --- poetic influences. --- poetic verse. --- poetics. --- poetry. --- prose poems. --- prose poetry. --- robert creeley. --- theater. --- traditional verse. --- visual arts. --- writing.