Revelation, Not Revolution: Queer Poetry’s Political Life, as Read through Robert Duncan’s Late Anarchism

Robert Duncan, a homosexual American poet, had conflicted and often self-contradictory relationships with gay liberation and sexual identity politics. Nonetheless, his ideas about eroticism’s centrality to poetic composition could help us reimagine poetry’s potential and its limits for addressing cr...

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Main Author: Eric Keenaghan
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Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2020-12-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/10612
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Revelation, Not Revolution: Queer Poetry’s Political Life, as Read through Robert Duncan’s Late Anarchism
Sillages Critiques
Robert Duncan
queer American poetry
gay liberation
anarchism
title Revelation, Not Revolution: Queer Poetry’s Political Life, as Read through Robert Duncan’s Late Anarchism
title_full Revelation, Not Revolution: Queer Poetry’s Political Life, as Read through Robert Duncan’s Late Anarchism
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title_full_unstemmed Revelation, Not Revolution: Queer Poetry’s Political Life, as Read through Robert Duncan’s Late Anarchism
title_short Revelation, Not Revolution: Queer Poetry’s Political Life, as Read through Robert Duncan’s Late Anarchism
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queer American poetry
gay liberation
anarchism
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