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Queer: A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday | Frank Wynne
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LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday selected by award-winning translator Frank Wynne. Drawing together writing from Catullus to Sappho, from Arthur Rimbaud to Anne Lister and Armistead Maupin, translator Frank Wynne has collected eighty of the finest works representing queer love by LGBTQ authors. These pieces straddle the spectrum of queer experience, from Verlaine's sonnet in praise of his lover's anus and Emily Dickinson's exhortation of a woman's beauty, to Alison Bechdel's graphic novel of her coming out, Juno Dawson's reflections on gender and Oscar Wilde's 'De Profundis'. With stories, poems, extracts and scenes from countries the world over, Queer is an unabashed and unapologetic anthology, which gives voice to those often silenced.
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I have mixed feelings about this book. It's a really interesting collection of queer writings. It includes translated writings from a lot of different places and time periods which was great, there were a lot of authors I hadn't heard of before.

I would prefer more information about the authors', the selected writings, and a bit more general context.

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The tagline for the book was writings from ancient times to yesterday. It didn't really include much 'ancient' material. There was a jump from Catullus to Shakespeare and the only ancient authors included were Homer, Sappho and Catullus.
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PuddleJumper Plays were also excluded because they were intended to be spoken but Greek epic was intended to be spoken, Greek and Latin poetry was intended to be spoken and read so I find that a bit frustrating.

It was still an amazing collection, well reserved and competently put together.
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Kenyazero This sounds awesome and frustrating bundled into one! 1y
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