Connor & Seal

By Jee Leong Koh

Book Overview

Inspired by Rita Dove's groundbreaking Thomas and Beulah, Connor & Seal is a masterful queering of poetic lineage. With oracular grace and whimsy, these poems innovate the public and private axes of gay love in a tumescent future. We meet Connor, a native Nebraskan and fledgling grant writer, and Seal, a financial analyst from Kingston, Jamaica, as they flummox the space between desire and demise, "the sun again a big orange pill / stuck in the blue throat of the sky." Connor & Seal serves as almanac to a time not far off, of techno-queer bots, state-sponsored violence, and individual resistance. With imaginative dexterity and stylistic flexibility, each poem in Connor & Seal becomes a cipher of the labor of tomorrow's construction: "a bench where two old faggots had to stop," an emblem of a future history, "as quiet as the siren / is alarming."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1943977755
• ISBN13: 9781943977758
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.8" x 8.3"