The Queer South: Lgbtq Writers on the American South - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937420809 ISBN 13: 9781937420802

Publisher: Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC, 2014

Synopsis

In The Queer South, Douglas Ray has assembled over 60 queer-identified voices exploring their experiences of the American South in nonfiction and poetry. From hilarious to heartbreaking, anxious to angry, religious to reluctant, contemplative to celebratory, this anthology expands our ideas of what it means to be queer and what it means to represent the land south of the Mason-Dixon. Included are Dorothy Allison, Shane Allison, John Andrews, Derrick Austin, Jeffery Berg, Richard Blanco, Perry Brass, Dustin Brookshire, Jericho Brown, Joey Connelly, William Cordeiro, C. Cleo Creech, James Croteau, J.K. Daniels, Nick Dephtereos, David Eye, Jason K. Friedman, D. Gilson, Ellen Goldstein, Mirian Bird Greenberg, Elizabeth Gross, Johnathan Harper, Scott Hightower, Matthew Hittinger, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Rex Leonowicz, Sassafras Lowrey, Tyler Lynn, Bo McGuire, Rangi McNeil, Kelly McQuain, M. Mack, Ed Madden, Jeff Mann, Randall Mann, Mary Meriam, Stephen S. Mills, Cameron Mitchell, Foster Noone, Joseph Osmundson, Eddie Outlaw, Seth Pennington, Evan J. Peterson, Kenneth Pobo, Brad Richard, Hannah Riddle, Laurence Ross, Liana Roux, Kevin Sessums, Del Shores, Erin Elizabeth Smith, Will Stockton, Dan Stone, Christine Stroud, Billie Tadros, TC Tolbert, Dan Vera, Annie Virginia, Valerie Wetlaufer, C.T. Whitley, Scott Wiggerman, Cristan Williams, and L. Lamar Wilson.

About this title

About the Author:

A native Mississippian, Douglas Ray is author of He Will Laugh (Lethe Press, 2012), which traces the intense love between two young men from the excitement of their first meeting to the aftermath of a tragic suicide. A former Lambda Literary Foundation Poetry Fellow, he received his BA summa cum laude in classics and English and MFA in creative writing from The University of Mississippi, where he edited The Yalobusha Review. He teaches literature and writing at Indian Springs School, an independent boarding and day school in Birmingham, Alabama.

Review:

Think about it: When have you been in the South and not had a queer experience, in any sense of that word? It's got to be the queerest space on earth. Matter of fact, go ahead and strike Queer from the title of this book. These writers are talking about the The South, period.
- Aaron Alford, editor of Southern Humanities Review

In The Queer South words emerge, blazing, from the red clay, the kudzu, the steaming rivers and creeks, and the sun-cracked city streets. Poems and essays wrestle the ghosts of history, ghosts that don't fight fair, hurling religion, race, and gendered expectations, alternating between shouts of bravado and whispers of shame.Yet, these love poems, coming out stories, and, yes, even songs of rejection win by laying bare the skin of any reader's heart. - Sandy Longhorn, author of The Alchemy of My Mortal Form

About this edition

• Publisher: Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1937420809
• ISBN 13: 9781937420802
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Ray Douglas