Table of Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introduction
1 The Poetics of Flippancy
2 He Cannot Understand Women. I Can’: Gertrude Stein and the Camp Butch
3 ‘There’s Nothing Metaphysical About It’: Frank O’Hara’s Flippant Manifesto and the Poetry of Tight Trousers
4 ‘Who Are These Idiots Writing These Poems?’: Eileen Myles’ Pornographic Tone and Mutable Categories
5 ‘Was Harry a Woman? Was I a Straight Lady?’: Tensions of Heternormativity, Assimilation and the Second Person
Conclusion

References
Index

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Charts the figure of the queer troublemaker in the works of avant-garde American poetry from Frank O'Hara to Maggie Nelson to construct an innovative poetics of flippancy.

About the Author

Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain is Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. She is the author of The Feminist Fourth Wave: Affective Temporalities (2017) and three books of poetry: House of Mouse (with S. J. Folwer, 2016), Coteries (2018) and *Retroviral (2018).