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Paperback | 280 pages
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In addition to his pivotal roles in the Gay Liberation Movement, revolutionary anarchism, queer publishing, and the early development of gay studies and sexuality education, Charles Shively was a lifelong poet. He published his first poem in high school and continued writing daily throughout his life. I Have a Poem for You, brings together three of his major manuscripts—Stonelicks Beyond Ohio, Cuauhtémoc Waiting, and Time Broken Hands—alongside a selection of uncollected poems, including his evocative Tarot series San Lazaro Street Scene Vendors. As Jim Dunn notes in his introduction, Shively’s poetry is “sparse, surreal and mystical, a rush of images in lean language… His poems at first seem like hallucinogenic and surreal streams of consciousness, sometimes referred to as ‘Emily Dickinson poems on LSD.’ But there are deeper and more urgent flashes of brilliance fused throughout his work when read closely that charge them with a vibrancy and rhythm.”
Paperback | 280 pages
Pre-Order. Copies will be sent out in late July.
In addition to his pivotal roles in the Gay Liberation Movement, revolutionary anarchism, queer publishing, and the early development of gay studies and sexuality education, Charles Shively was a lifelong poet. He published his first poem in high school and continued writing daily throughout his life. I Have a Poem for You, brings together three of his major manuscripts—Stonelicks Beyond Ohio, Cuauhtémoc Waiting, and Time Broken Hands—alongside a selection of uncollected poems, including his evocative Tarot series San Lazaro Street Scene Vendors. As Jim Dunn notes in his introduction, Shively’s poetry is “sparse, surreal and mystical, a rush of images in lean language… His poems at first seem like hallucinogenic and surreal streams of consciousness, sometimes referred to as ‘Emily Dickinson poems on LSD.’ But there are deeper and more urgent flashes of brilliance fused throughout his work when read closely that charge them with a vibrancy and rhythm.”