Queer Lyrics : Difficulty and Closure in American Poetry

Vincent uses formal concerns, difficulty and closure, to discuss innovations specific to queer American poets.

He traces a genealogy based on these queer techniques from Whitman, through Crane and Moore, to Ashbery and Spicer. "Queer Lyrics" considers the place of form in queer theory, while opening new vistas on the poetry of these seminal figures.