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The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr
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Description: 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 perceptual arena where acts of looking between strangers are intensified and eroticized? Parlett believes that this moment is not only optical in nature but visual: a mode of looking that warrants comparison with the ways in which we behold still and moving images.
Whether it's Whitman's fixation with daguerreotypes, Langston Hughes's hybrid photographic works, or Frank O'Hara's love of Hollywood movie stars, argues Parlett, the history of poets cruising abounds with this intermingling between the verbal and the visual, the...
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Title: The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr
Author: Jack Parlett
Language: English
Subjects: SOC012000 Social Science / Gay Studies, LIT004160 Literary Criticism / Lgbt
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