This book, divided into four parts, uses the Ancient Greek taxonomy of love as its guiding principle: The first part, "Loving Men," ventures into the realms of ἀγάπη (brotherly love), φιλία (friendship), ξενία (guest-friendship), and στοργή (familial affection). The second part, "Loving a Man," is devoted to ἔρως (intimate love) and contains the poems for which the author's self-severing lover serves as a muse. The third part, "Loving Me," is firmly entrenched in the domain of φιλαυτία (self-love) and traces the highest points of the author's poetic self-definition and sexual awakening. The fourth part contains the eponymous, epic queer poem of 652 lines (give or take) that embodies an exuberant and unholy union between T. S. Eliot's "Prufrock" and J. F. Shade's "Pale Fire."
While We Were Hateful People, Michael G. Khmelnitsky's previous poetry collection, was a meditation on neurodivergence, queerness, and heteronormativity, The Love of a Good Man evinces an examination of the other side of this coin—the vagaries of homosocial affinity and homosexual desire, their seeming impossibility, their historiography, and their erasure—prompted by the author's abrupt disaffection by a man.
This book, divided into four parts, uses the Ancient Greek taxonomy of love as its guiding principle: The first part, "Loving Men," ventures into the realms of ἀγάπη (brotherly love), φιλία (friendship), ξενία (guest-friendship), and στοργή (familial affection). The second part, "Loving a Man," is devoted to ἔρως (intimate love) and contains the poems for which the author's self-severing lover serves as a muse. The third part, "Loving Me," is firmly entrenched in the domain of φιλαυτία (self-love) and traces the highest points of the author's poetic self-definition and sexual awakening. The fourth part contains the eponymous, epic queer poem of 652 lines (give or take) that embodies an exuberant and unholy union between T. S. Eliot's "Prufrock" and J. F. Shade's "Pale Fire."
While We Were Hateful People, Michael G. Khmelnitsky's previous poetry collection, was a meditation on neurodivergence, queerness, and heteronormativity, The Love of a Good Man evinces an examination of the other side of this coin—the vagaries of homosocial affinity and homosexual desire, their seeming impossibility, their historiography, and their erasure—prompted by the author's abrupt disaffection by a man.
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ISBN-13: | 9781738894949 |
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Publisher: | JLRB Press |
Publication date: | 01/11/2024 |
Pages: | 132 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d) |