************************************* Please freely distribute this text: @nticopyright ************************************* ***** New Enlarged Version ***** TEACHING QUEER MEN'S POETRY - A RESOURCE-LIST (Version 3: August 1995 - updated to include material on black and Arabic literature, a clutch of new books, new citations on teaching, and general tinkering... I am thinking of instituting a moderated mailing-list for scholarly discussion of queer poetry. Is anyone interested ?) by ianthe@duende.demon.co.uk *** This list includes only those works which deal with _more_ than one author. There are also a large number of journal articles and books which deal (positively or negatively) with the affections/desires/sexualities of specific authors. Many of the books listed below are quite daunting for a beginner who is not fluent in academic "jargonese". This list started life as a guide for those teaching adult students outside the academy, perhaps in evening-classes or summer schools. The easiest books for the interested general reader to begin with are thus probably: Lilly (1993), and then try Woods (1987) and Aldrich (1992) *** ****************************** CONTENTS: * General books and articles * On teaching queer literature * Some major anthologies ****************************** Aldrich, Robert. The Seduction of The Mediterranean - writing, art and the homosexual fantasy. London, Routledge, 1992. [Last chapter departs from the emphasis on biography and looks at themes in the writings. Scholarship has been savaged by those-who-know] Bartlett, Neil. Who Was That Man ? - A present for Oscar Wilde. London, Penguin, 1993. [Especially good on the codes of London gay life in the late 1800s. Highly readable] Bergman, David. Gaity Transfigured - gay self-representation in American literature. University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. [First two chapters define experience of being sexually 'Other'.] Bristow, Joseph. (Ed.) Sexual Sameness - textual differences in lesbian and gay writing. London, Routledge, 1992. [Demonstrates how literature has been valuable space for expressing 'other' sexual desires.] Bronski, Micheal. Culture Clash - The making of gay sensibility. Boston (USA), South End Press, 1984. Buchen, Irving. (Ed.) The Perverse Imagination - sexuality and literary culture. New York, ?, 1970. Butters, Ronald, R., Clum, J.M., and Moon, M. (Eds). Displacing Homophobia - gay male perspectives in literature and culture. USA, ?, 1989. Craft, Christopher. Another Kind of Love - homosexual desire in English discourse, 1850-1920. University of California Press, 1994. Daniel, Marc (Leyland, Winston. Trans.) Arab Civilisation and Male Love. IN: Goldburg, Johnathon (Ed.) Reclaiming Sodomy. Routledge, London, 1994. pp. 59-65. Dellamora, Richard. Masculine Desire - the sexual politics of Victorian aestheticism. University of North Caroline Press, 1990. Dollimore, Johnathon. Sexual Dissidence - Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1991. Dynes, W.R. and Donaldson, S. Homosexual Themes in Literary Studies - Studies in Homosexuality, Vol VIII. USA, Garland Publishing, 1992. [Useful overview and round-up of hard-to-find articles.] Easterman, Dan. The Erection Is Eternal. NEW STATESMAN AND SOCIETY, 12th Feb. 1993, pp. 26-27 [Arabic poetry and gay loving] Foster, David (Ed.) Encyclopedia of South American Lesbian and Gay Literature. Greenwood, USA, 1994. Fone, Byrne. (1983) This Other Eden - Arcadia and the homosexual imagination. JOURNAL OF HOMOSEXUALITY, Vol.8, No's.3/4, 1983. Foster, Stephen Wayne. (1982) Beauty's Purple Flame - some minor American gay poets, 1786-1936. GAY BOOKS BULLETIN, No.7, Spring 1982. pp. 15-17. [Reprinted in: Dynes, W.R. and Donaldson, S. 1992.] Fone, Byrne. A Road To Stonewall - male homosexuality in English and American Literature, 1750-1969. USA, ?, 1994. [Standard survey rounding up all the usual suspects. Would probably be a good 'primer' for courses with University undergraduates.] Kellogg, Stuart. (Ed.) Literary Visions of Homosexuality. ?, ?, 1983. Kellogg, Stuart. (Ed.) Essays on Gay Literature. New York, Harrington Park Press, 1985. Lilly, Mark. Lesbian and Gay Writing - an anthology of critical essays. MacMillan, London, 1990. [Contains: Woods, Gregory. 'Absurd! Ridiculous! Disgusting!' - Paradox in Poetry by Gay Men'. pp. 175-198.] Lilly, Mark. Gay Men's Literature in the Twentieth Century. MacMillan, London, 1993. [Rounds up all the usual suspects. Good introduction.] Martin, Robert K. (Ed.) The Homosexual Tradition in American Poetry. USA, University of Texas Press, 1979. Meyers, Jeffery. Homosexuality and Literature, 1890-1930. The Athlone Press, London, 1977. [Much criticised by subsequent scholars.] Minton, Henry L. (Ed.) Gay and Lesbian Studies. New York. Harrington park Press, 1992. [Especially Flannigan-Saint-Aubin, Arthur. 'The Mark of Sexual Preference in the Interpretation of Texts'. pp. 65-88. and other essays by Joseph Cady and Will Roscoe.] Nelson, Emmanuel S. Towards a Transgressive Aesthetic - Gay Readings of Black Writing. THE JAMES WHITE REVIEW, Spring l994 , p.l7. Nelson, Emmanuel S. Critical Essays - Gay and Lesbian Writers of Colour. Haworth Press, New York, 1994. Norton, Rictor C. The Homosexual Literary Tradition - an interpretation. New York, Revisionist Press, 1974. [Looks at archetypal patterns in Graeco-Roman and Elizabethan poetry. Not highly regarded by later gay critics.] Richter, Simon. Winckelmann's Progeny: Homosocial Networking in Eighteenth-Century Germany. IN: Kuzniar, Alice (Ed.) OUting Goethe and His Age. [Stanford University Press, USA, forthcoming] Roscoe, Will. Queer Spirits - a gay men's myth book. USA, ?, 1995. [Interesting worldwide anthology and commentary on mythology and folklore - an often neglected form of 'poetry' and one which often re-appears, in re-worked form, in queer men's poetry.] Roth, Norman. Deal Gently With The Young Man - love of boys in Medieval Hebrew Poetry of Spain. SPECULUM, 57, 1982. pp.20-51 Roth, Norman. "My Beloved is Like a Gazelle" - imagery of the beloved boy in Hebrew Religious Poetry. HEBREW ANNUAL REVIEW, 8, 1984. pp.143-165 Roth, Norman. "The Care and Feeding of Gazelles" - medieval Hebrew and Arabic Love Poetry. IN: Lazar, M. and Lacy, N. (Eds) Poetics of Love in the Middle Ages, Fairfax, VA, 1989. Roth, Norman. Fawn of My Delights - boy-love in Hebrew and Arabic Verse. IN: Sex in the Middle Ages, New York, 1991. pp.157-172. Roth, Norman. Boy-love in Medieval Arabic Verse PAIDIKA - Journal of Paedophilia, Vol 3, No.3, Winter 1994. pp.12-17 Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Between Men - English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. Second Edition. London, Longman, 1994. Simes, Gary. (1984) Gai Saber - homosexuality and the poetic imagination. GAY INFORMATION (Sydney, Australia), No's. 14/15, 1984. pp. 21-33. Smith, Timothy D'Arch. Love In Earnest; some notes on the lives and writings of English 'Uranian' poets from 1889 to 1930. London. Routledge, 1970. [Classic study of the Uranian paederastic tradition in England, with rigourous standards of scholarship which are only just beginning to be matched.] Summers, Claude. (Ed.) The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage - a reader's companion to the writers and their works, from Antiquity to the Present. Henry Holt, USA, 1995. [350 entries from more than 150 academics. A standard reference work for the 'queer canon', but it is far from being comprehensive.] Woods, Gregory. Articulate Flesh - male homo-eroticism and modern poetry. USA, Yale University Press, 1989. [Well worth reading, if you can find a copy. Rather rambling and discursive at times, but is an important work. Argues in part that homoerotic verse is part of the mainstream, not a distinct category. Looks at Lawrence, Crane, Auden, Ginsberg, Gunn. Woods is currently writing a book on gay lit. for Yale, and can be contacted at Nottingham Trent University, UK.] Wormhoudt, Arthur. Classic Arab Poetry, 600-1299 GAY BOOKS BULLETIN, Autumn 1980, Vol 4. pp.23-27 Zimmerman, Bonnie and Haggerty, George E. Professions of Desire - lesbian and gay studies in literature. MLA, USA, 1995. * ON TEACHING QUEER LITERATURE Cady, Joseph. Teaching Homosexual Literature as a 'subversive' act. IN: Minton, Henry. Gay and Lesbian Studies, Harrington Park Press, USA, 1992. pp. 89-109. [The whole volume can also be highly recommended] Garber, Linda. (Ed.) Tilting the Tower: Lesbians / Teaching / Queer Subjects. New York and London: Routledge, 1994. [Collection of essays by/about lesbian teachers and/or teaching lesbian studies. My guide is about teaching men's poetry, but Garber probably has a fair bit to say to queer men too] Ringer, R. J. Coming out in the classroom: Faculty disclosures of sexuality. IN: Ringer, R. J. (Ed.) Queer Words, Queer Images - Communication and the Construction of Homosexuality. New York, New York University Press, 1994. (pp. 322-331) Rubin, G. 'Thinking Sex - notes for a radical theory of the politics of sexuality'. IN: Abelove, H., Barale, M.A., and Halperin, D.M. The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. London and NY, Routledge, 1994. [Updated version of the famous essay - a standard starting-point for critical thinking on the subject. 'The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader' also contains a useful, lengthy and up-to-date overview/bibliography of work in this fast developing field. Photocopies of both would be a 'must' to start a course in queer men's poetry - for students and teacher.] Wilson, D. E. Can I be Gay and be a Teacher? IN: Sears. J. T. (Ed.) Bound By Diversity. ?, USA, 1994. [Sounds like it's aimed at infant-school level. I havn't seen this, so don't blame me if it is...] * SOME MAJOR ANTHOLOGIES (In date order.) The Greek Anthology [Various versions, translations and selections.] The ever-lovely Camille Paglia, in her entry on 'Love Poetry' in the 'Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics' (1993) makes reference to "Straton of Sardis, editor of an anthology of paederastic poems,". Ibn Sana al-Mulk. (Ed.) Dar al-tiraz. [Anthology of Hebrew homoerotic poetry from medieval al-Andalus, Spain. No translation known, but some of the less explicit poems can be found in: Compton, Linda Fish. 'Andalusian Lyric poetry and Old Spanish Love Songs'. New York, 1976.] Kupffer, Elisar von. (Ed.) Lieblingsminne und Freundesliebe in der Welt-literature. Berlin, Adolf Brand, 1900. 202 pp. [German. No translation known.] Carpenter, Edward. (Ed.) Iolaus - anthology of friendship. London, Swan Sonnenschein / Manchester, S. Clarke. Second edition, 1906. pp. vi. 234. Third Edition 1927. [Edward Carpenter Archives, Sheffield, UK, have accessible copy. British Library seem to guard their copy with killer-librarians... :-( ] Ibn Dawud (Muhammed Ibn Dawud Al-Isfahani). Kitab al-zahara. (The Book of the Flower) Nykl, Richard (Ed.) Oriental Institute, Chicago, USA, 1932. 406pp. [Arabic text. 9th Century anthology which includes love poetry to boys by several authors] Sutherland, Alistair. and Anderson, Patrick. (Eds.) Eros - an anthology of male friendship. London, Blond, 1961. [Excellent anthology, though now hard to find. Takes a chronological approach. No index or sources] Reade, Brian. (Ed.) Sexual Heretics; Male Homosexuality in English literature from 1850-1900 - an anthology. London, Routledge, Keegan and Paul, 1970. Young, Ian. The Male Muse - a gay anthology. Traumansburg, New York, 1973. Leyland, Winston. (Ed.) Angels of The Lyre - a gay poetry anthology. San Fransisco, 1975. Hafkamp, Hans. Naar vriendshap zulk een mateloos verlangen - bloemlezing uit de Nethelandse homo-erotische poezie, 1880-nu. Amsterdam, Bert Bakker, 1979. [Dutch poetry, no translation known.] Galloway, David and Sabisch, Christian. (Eds.) Calamus: male homosexuality in twentieth-century literature - an anthology. New York, Morrow, 1982. [Very difficult to obtain, at least in the UK.] Coote, Stephen. The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse. London, Penguin, 1983. [Widely available in bookshops and secondhand. Ancient times to 1970s.] Stehling, Thomas, trans., Medieval Latin Poems of Male Love and Friendship. New York, Garland Press, 198? [Gay medieval literature from the Roman Empire to 1300. Alcuin, Ausonius, Luxorius, Abelard, Baudri or Bourgueil, Hilderbert of Lauardin.] Morse, Carl. and Larkin, Joan. (Eds.) Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time - an anthology. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1988. [200 poems from 94 poets, 1950-present.] Christman, Henry. M. (Ed.) Gay Tales and Verses from the Arabian Nights. Edward-William Publishing Company/Banned Books, USA 1989. 104pp 0-934411-27-1 Trade Paper $7.95 Lacey, E. A. (Translator) The Delight of Hearts: Or, What You Will Not Find in Any Book. Gay Sunshine Press, 1988. 240pp, illus. ISBN/Price: 0-940567-08-3 Library Binding $25.00 0-940567-09-1 Trade Paper $14.95 [Al-Tifashi, Ahmad (Compiled by, Preface by); Lacey, E. A. (Introduction by, ); Khawam, Rene R. (Introduction by). An anthology of Arabic gay literature - is a translation of a translation of a translation, so has probably lost something in the process...] Reid, Anthony. (Ed.) The Eternal Flame - a world anthology of homosexual verse, 2000 B.C.- 2000 A.D. Volume 1 - Greece, Italy, Islam, France. New York, Dyanthus Press, 1992. [Available mail-order in the EC from Prinz Eisenhart, Berlin - ask for the poetry list.] Ianthe. (Ed.) Child-loving in Poetry and Literature - an anthology. Published as e-text only. No paper version. [100,000 words, with samples from most of the various paederastic traditions, Ancients to the present. Copies can be had free - send initial request to ianthe@duende.demon.co.uk, but be warned that it over half a megabyte in size, and you need .zip and uudecode software to unpack it.] Moss, Kevin. Tender Lads: A Gay Russian Anthology. (Gay Sunshine Press, USA, forthcoming 1996) ends.