Queer : A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday ed. By Frank Wynne #Translatedpoetry A book to treasure alongside

A book to treasure alongside the original blue edition

Whether you’re familiar with a poem or not — whether you’re familiar with poetry in general or not — these chatty

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Queer : A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday ed. By Frank Wynne #Translatedpoetry A book to treasure alongsideDrawing together writing from Catullus to Sappho, from Arthur Rimbaud to Anne Lister and Armistead Maupin, translator Frank Wynne has collected eighty of the finest works representing queer love by LGBTQ authors. These pieces straddle the spectrum of queer experience, from Verlaine's sonnet in praise of his lover's anus and Emily Dickinson's exhortation of a woman's beauty, to Alison Bechdel's graphic novel of her coming out, Juno Dawson's reflections