Who's yer daddy? : gay writers celebrate their mentors and forerunners /

"Who's Yer Daddy? offers readers of gay male literature a keen and engaging journey. In this anthology, thirty-nine gay authors discuss individuals who have influenced them-- their inspirational "daddies." The essayists include fiction writers, poets, and performance artists, bot...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Elledge, Jim, 1950- (Editor), Groff, David (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wisconsin : Terrace Books, [2012]
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Table of Contents:
  • All Our Daddies and Then Some / Jim Elledge and David Groff
  • Culture club in space: An anecdotal poetics / Benjamin S. Grossberg
  • Walt Whitman: Glow on the Extremest / Verge Mark Doty
  • Latin Moon Daddy / Charles RiceGonzález
  • Making a Man Out of Me / Richard Blanco
  • Under the Influence / Chip Livingston
  • My Mothers Grave Is Yellow / Dale Peck
  • Some Notes Thoughts Recollections Revisions and Corrections Regarding Becoming Being and Remaining a Gay Writer / Justin Chin
  • My three dads / Charles Jensen
  • Orpheus in Texas / Saeed Jones
  • "It does not have to be yours" / Mark Bibbins
  • A hidden life (oh Joy Williams) / Paul Lisicky
  • Positively not: a talk about poetries and traditions / Brian Teare
  • Romantic / Jeff Mann
  • The Tallahatchie meets the Arve, or unexpected gay confluences in the '70s / Greg Hewett
  • How I learned to drive: the education of a gay disabled writer / Kenny Fries
  • How to skin a deer / Martin Hayatt
  • The little girls with penises / Jim Elledge
  • Oubloir / David McConnell
  • Beloved Jotoranos / Rigoberto González
  • Leaving Berlin / Ellery Washington
  • Teenage Riot: notes on some books that guide me through a profoundly hormonal time / Alistair McCartney
  • My radical dads / David Groff
  • The mentor I never met: Janet Frame / Aaron Hamburger
  • The case of the undone novel / Richard McCann
  • Fugitives / James Allen Hall
  • Some notes on influences or why I am not objective / Michael Klein
  • I will tell this story the way I choose / Shaun Levin
  • Thom Gunn: A memoir of reading / Randall Mann
  • Queering an Italian American poetic legacy / Peter Covino
  • Vanity Fairey Interviews writer Noël Alumit / Noël Alumit
  • The four of them / Thomas Glave
  • Jumpstart / Tim Miller
  • Caliban / Dave King
  • My first poetic mentor was a Welshman named Leslie / Timothy Liu
  • The world is full of orphans / Raymond Luczak
  • The seismology of love and letters / Brian Leung
  • Botticelli Boy / Rick Barot
  • Miss thing / Paul Bonin-Rodriguez
  • Thirteen ways of looking at my father / K.M. Soehnlein.