Gay Heaven Is A Dance Floor But I Can't Relax
By (Author) charles theonia
powerHouse Books,U.S.
Archway Editions
18th June 2024
18th April 2024
United States
Paperback
112
Width 178mm, Height 178mm
50g
The debut poetry collection of a soon-to-be major poet in a multiform, poetic crossgenerational conversation between queer and trans artists and writers.
In this book, poetic citation assumes the form of crossgenerational conversation between queer and trans artists and writers. The poems methodologies and forms are promiscuous (meaning that they make contact with a variety of sources, not limited to pop songs, paintings, a sexological study, and AIDS activist agitprop), variable in their structure, and invested in intergenerational queer connectivity. In responding to and incorporating language and images from works across disciplines including painting, photography, music, dance, political actions, and experimental translation, these poems are movements of conversation with the queer and trans artists, writers, and activists who have set the conditions for charles theonia's living.
charles theoniais a poet, enthusiast, and transsexual without direction. They are the author ofIf a Piece Falls off the Poem, Keep It(a Belladonna* chaplet) and other writings on gay zits, sexology, and disco.