Rocksong Noelle Stevenson And Agatha

And Agatha

each of the so-called 'biblical texts of terror' used to demonise LGBT people is considered in turn and found wanting

But when Hector dies of AIDS-related complications

pansexual SM community to understand sadomasochism from the inside out

And as old Cold War tensions begin to tear his life apart

Rocksong Noelle Stevenson And AgathaROCKSONG is a shamelessly baroque ride through the nadirs and summits of the contemporary queer. Its a decadent book, where decadence isnt a cipher for self indulgence, but a fierce and fugitive resistance. As Audre Lorde writes We survived and survival breeds desire for more self. Or, in the glowing neon precincts of Rocksong, more selves, plural. These poems flirt and confront in turns, they seduce and attack, they are tender and grotesque. They