Synopses & Reviews
Serious and tender, goofy and sexy, rabid and raw poetry about dogs by well-known lesbian and gay authors
-- Includes works by poets Justin Chin, Edward Field, and Adrienne Rich
Dogs are looming large in America's "collective unconscious", according to a recent New Yorker article. The lesbian/gay community is at the very forefront of this trend. Recent features in lesbian and gay magazines like Genre, Girlfriends, and Out, which ran a dog fashion spread, evince a deep affinity for canines. An increasing volume of queer/dog texts and images in a wide variety of contexts -- from music videos to art books, like photographer Bruce Weber's recent book featuring Newfoundland dogs, to literary works about dogs by leading gay writers like Paul Monette -- is appearing in the media.
Queer Dog: Homo Pup Poetry is an attractively packaged book of poetry in a range of styles by famous and infamous gay and lesbian poets: Eileen Myles, Carl Morse, May Sarton, Eloise Klein Healy, James Broughton, Jeffery Conway, Timothy Liu, Linda Smukler, John Del Peschio, Michael Klein, Gertrude Stein, Michael Lassell, Terry Wolverton, Jack Anderson, David Trinidad, Jan Freeman, Nancy Boutilier, and others.
Queer Dog gathers poems of seduction, poems of funny butch dogs and sensual femme dogs, of dogs in heaven, and dogs in mourning. Gays and lesbians will want to buy Queer Dog for themselves, their friends -- and for their dogs.