Pet Sounds
Published on 7. October 2020
96 pages
978-1-64362-079-4 (ISBN)
Description
A book of unruly love poems about complicated sexuality, precarity, and kinship
Working from the sticky interface of property and sex, Stephanie Young takes up the question of passing when narrow definitions of family on offer by the law and capitalist social relations leave out so much. With a cast of characters that includes lovers and exes, Troilus and Cressida, Van Morrison and the Grateful Dead, Steph Curry and Andre Iguodala, Pat Parker and Judy Grahn, the orca Tilikum and his captors, Pet Sounds is at once a book of confessional economics, music criticism disguised as poetry, and a complicated coming out story. These poems pulse with the pleasures and grief of making a home inside structures that don't fit-on land whose value climbs ever upward in the frenzy of speculation.
2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER
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Stephanie Young lives and works in Oakland. Her books of poetry and prose include It's No Good Everything's Bad, Ursula or University, Picture Palace, and Telling the Future Off. She edited the anthology Bay Poetics and with Juliana Spahr, A Megaphone: Some Enactments, Some Numbers, and Some Essays about the Continued Usefulness of Crotchless-pants-and-a-machine-gun Feminism. Young is a member of the Krupskaya editorial collective and directs the graduate program in creative writing at Mills where she was also on the bargaining team for the first adjunct contract at the college.
