The full spectrum david levithan5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Greg Hewett's book The Eros Conspiracy (Coffee House Press), has been described as a "book-length poetic treatise on love, beauty and revolution," and also as "a transhistorical love note from an older lover to his younger beloved." June Jordan's posthumously released Directed by Desire: Collected Poems (Copper Canyon), edited by Jan Heller Levi and Sara Miles, took home the Lesbian Poetry Lammy and received a nomination for The Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry from The Publishing Triangle. Poetic justice: Richard Siken's poetry collection Crush (Yale University Press) received both the Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. The latter received the Lammy for Gay Men's Fiction. and the very adult subject matter of The Sluts (Carroll & Graf). Prolific queer writer Dennis Cooper had a busy 2005 with the publication of the young adult novel God, Jr. The book was also a finalist for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction from The Publishing Triangle. ![]() ![]() As it turns out, there is plenty more where those books came from.Īlready a winner: The novel Choir Boy (Soft Skull Press) by Charlie Anders received the Lambda Literary Award for the Transgender/GenderQueer category in May 2006. What better time than summer to catch up on your reading? This year already looks to be one of the best in terms of works by queer writers, including John Weir's What I Did Wrong and T Cooper's Lipschitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes. ![]()
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