The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr

by Jack Parlett

Book Overview

A groundbreaking new history of urban cruising through the lenses of urban poets

The Poetics of Cruising explores the relationship between cruising, photography, and the visual in the work of leading poets, from Walt Whitman in the nineteenth century to Eileen Myles in the twenty-first. What is it that happens, asks Jack Parlett, and what is it that is sought, in this often transient moment of perception we call cruising, this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517911044
• ISBN13: 9781517911041
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 4.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"