Queer Difficulty in Art and Poetry : Rethinking the Sexed Body in Verse and Visual Culture (Hardcover)

Introduction Difficult Queers, Queer Difficulties 1. Bohemians of the Vegetable World Alison Syme 2. The Consequences of Dating Don Leon Charles Upchurch 3. The Song of Songs for Difficult Queers: Simeon Solomon, Neil Bartlett, and A Vision of Love Revealed in Sleep Duc Dau 4. Ingres’s Line Kevin Kopelson 5. "I Am a Photographer, Not a Lesbian": Berenice Abbott’s Visibility Tirza True Latimer 6. Naked Politics: The Art of Eros 1955-1975 Jonathan Katz 7. The Blatant Image, Lesbian Identity, and Visual Pleasure Margo Hobbs 8. For/Against Homoeroticism: Posing Difficulty for the Habitual Decoders of Desire Nicholas de Villiers 9. Ladies Almanack showing their Satire and Irony; Sorrow and Sentimentality; Ridiculousness in Relation to Sexual Identity; as well as reflections on Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home?Or, Notes not on Camp Christopher Reed 10. Now and (N)ever: Robert Gober’s Beeswax Time Machines Jongwoo Jeremy Kim 11. Hip Openers: On the Visuals of Gendering Athleticism Erica Rand 12. The Perils and Pleasures of Drinking in Will Self and Herman Melville Carina Pasquesi