These poems showcase Ronald Palmer's innate gift for wordplay and verbal experimentation and reflect his peculiarly modern consciousness, formed by a clinically dysfunctional family and the experience of coming out as a queer young man within the AIDS pandemic. Palmer integrates styles as disparate as those of e. e. cummings and Gertrude Stein with the tropes of gender, sexuality, and queer theory to create a lyrical poetry of fractured dream-language and jumpy rhythms that's both new and disturbingly familiar.
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These poems showcase Ronald Palmer's innate gift for wordplay and verbal experimentation and reflect his peculiarly modern consciousness, formed by a clinically dysfunctional family and the experience of coming out as a queer young man within the AIDS pandemic. Palmer integrates styles as disparate as those of e. e. cummings and Gertrude Stein with the tropes of gender, sexuality, and queer theory to create a lyrical poetry of fractured dream-language and jumpy rhythms that's both new and disturbingly familiar.
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