Butch Geography

By Stacey Waite

In her Los Angeles Review of Books essay "Who Is Who: Pronouns, Gender, and Merging Selves," Dana Levin describes Stacey Waite's fusion of gender identities: "Pseudonyms, heteronyms, personae, all the ventriloquizing literary arts; point of view and tonal shifts: these are tools for speakers and speaking. But the sentence too has a voice: 'i will not be the kind of boy who can not bear the memory of her body' ... This is Waite's] genius ... to take innocuous syntactical phrasing and change the players mid-sentence -- to get around English's pronominal either/or by creating a syntactical both/and..."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936797259
• ISBN13: 9781936797257
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Tupelo Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"