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  title info:
    title: Never by itself alone
    sub title: queer poetry, queer communities in Boston and the Bay Area, 1944-present
  title info:
    title: Queer poetry, queer communities in Boston and the Bay Area, 1944-present
  name:
    name part: Grundy, David
    name part: (Poet)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Literary criticism.
  genre: Critiques littéraires.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 396 pages).
  abstract: "Never By Itself Alone changes our sense of both the American literary and political landscapes from the post-war period through to the present day. Presenting the first comprehensive history of post-war queer writing in Boston and San Francisco, the book begins with Robert Duncan's courageous 1944 essay, 'The Homosexual in Society', one of the first significant public defences of homosexuality in the United States and ends with the War on Terror. Along the way, readers will encounter Adrian Stanford's Black and Queer, the first book by an out, Black gay poet published in the United States; the Boston collective Fag Rag, whose radical reconsideration of family, private property and the State remain both ahead of their time and timely; the Combahee River Collective, whose Black Feminist analysis drew together race, class and sexuality in new ways; the anthology This Bridge Called My Back, in which women of colour spoke truth to power, together; and New Narrative writing, which audaciously mixed Marxism, porn and gossip while uniting against the New Right. Drawing on extensive archival research, Never By Itself Alone reclaims a host of neglected writers, especially writers of colour and those with gender non-conforming identities; challenges the Stonewall exceptionalism of queer historiography, recovering pre-1969 activist and literary community and its anticipations of 'queer' identity; and insists on the continuing importance of radical accounts of race, class and gender in any queer studies worthy of the name"--
  table of contents: Cover -- Never By Itself Alone -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: 'Never by itself alone' -- Prelude -- Chapter Summaries -- Why Boston and the Bay? -- Methodology and Focus -- Questions of Publication -- From Homosexual Tradition to Queer Lineage -- 'meet their end upon the ground' -- Part I Beginnings (1944-​1969) -- 1. 'Homosexuals in Society': Poetry and Gay Community in the 1940s -- Introduction -- 'The Homosexual in Society': Gay Identity and the Future of America -- The Young and Evil
  table of contents: 'The mind's /​ natural jungle': Race, Sexuality, and Identity -- 'One day we'll see how a black man really feels' -- 'Creating New Worlds': The Berkeley Renaissance -- The King's Two Cities -- From the Renaissance to the Household -- Coda: 'Being so far abroad from what he once was' -- 2. Identity and Community in the Work of Jack Spicer -- Introduction -- 'What have I lost?': The Berkeley Renaissance and the Mattachine -- Spicer in Boston -- 'Five Boston cats blowing their poetry REAL hard' -- 'Poetry is public property': the Boston Newsletter -- 'No place to turn': The Oliver Charming Notebooks
  table of contents: Sex and the Single Poem -- The Heads of the Town up to the Aether: Spicer's Coming Community -- Return to San Francisco and the Spicer Circle -- 'the figure of a person at once lost and unlikely' -- 'the city we create' -- Open Spaces: The Magazines of the Spicer Circle -- 'An Apparition of the Late J' -- Love Poems and Protestant Letters: Open Space -- Community and Negativity in Spicer's Final Work -- 'Alone we are dangerous': Community/​Revolution -- The Pacific Nation -- 'People are starving': Book of Magazine Verse -- Messages from Actual Conditions: Spicer's Afterlives
  table of contents: 3. The Occult School of Boston (i): 'Levels above and below' (Ed Marshall and Stephen Jonas) -- 'An occult school, unknown' -- 'A diabolical devout': The Case of Ed Marshall -- 'Leave the word alone it is dangerous' -- 'A covering and an unloading': Hellan, Hellan -- 'Dialogue against Dialogue': Stephen Jonas -- 'another excursion into fantasy': Jonas' 'anti-​biographies' -- 'Remember me kindly': Love, The Poem, The Sea -- 'From one Martian to another': Jonas and Jack Spicer -- 'Boston Lingo' and the American Idiom -- 'one completed poem': Poetry and Love
  table of contents: 'In hell /​ already': Jonas' later work -- 4. The Occult School of Boston (ii): 'Queer Shoulders at the Wheel' (John Wieners and Gerrit Lansing) -- 'never forget where we come from': John Wieners -- Early Poems: Wieners in the Boston Newsletter -- 'a show of junkies, cocksuckers, THIEVES': Wieners and Measure -- 'It is my life you save': San Francisco and The Hotel Wentley Poems -- Gerrit Lansing's Gay Age of Aquarius -- 'Exuberant and restless disorder': Gerrit Lansing in New York -- 'The Burden of SET' -- 'Naming is gaming' -- Coda: 'Rise, Shining Martyrs'
  note: David Grundy.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ma
    geographic code: n-us-ca
  subject:
    topic: Sexual minorities' writings, American
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American poetry
    geographic: Massachusetts
    geographic: Boston
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American poetry
    geographic: California
    geographic: San Francisco Bay Area
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American poetry
    topic: Minority authors
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American poetry
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American poetry
    temporal: 21st century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Sexual minority authors
    geographic: Massachusetts
    geographic: Boston
  subject:
    topic: Sexual minority authors
    geographic: California
    geographic: San Francisco Bay Area
  subject:
    topic: Sexual minorities
    geographic: Massachusetts
    geographic: Boston
    topic: Intellectual life
  subject:
    topic: Sexual minorities
    geographic: California
    geographic: San Francisco Bay Area
    topic: Intellectual life
  subject:
    topic: Écrits de minorités sexuelles américains
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Poésie américaine
    geographic: Massachusetts
    geographic: Boston
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Poésie américaine
    geographic: Californie
    geographic: San Francisco, Région de la baie de
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Poésie américaine
    temporal: 20e siècle
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: LGBTQ+ people
  classification: PS153.S39 G78 2024
  classification: 811/.540992066
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    title info:
      title: Never by itself alone
    name:
      name part: Grundy, David
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024
    identifier: (DLC) 2023057267
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240213
    record change date: 20260319204526.1
    record identifier: in00005726765
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng