Queer : A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday ed. By Frank Wynne #Translatedpoetry 📚RECOMMENDATIONS: Colin Bramwell

📚RECOMMENDATIONS: Colin Bramwell

to comfort and distract us from the cares of everyday life

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his vision impaired by surgery and unable to read

A book to treasure alongside the original blue edition

Queer : A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday ed. By Frank Wynne #Translatedpoetry 📚RECOMMENDATIONS: Colin BramwellDrawing together writing from Catullus to Sappho, from Arthur Rimbaud to Anne Lister and Armistead Maupin, translator Frank Wynne has collected eighty of the finest works representing queer love by LGBTQ authors. These pieces straddle the spectrum of queer experience, from Verlaine's sonnet in praise of his lover's anus and Emily Dickinson's exhortation of a woman's beauty, to Alison Bechdel's graphic novel of her coming out, Juno Dawson's reflections