Queer as in Queering: a review of Communal Nude: Collected Essays by Robert Glück
Brought to life as an appreciative yet critical reaction to the 60s and 70s avant-garde of the Language poets, Robert Glück’s and Bruce Boone’s New Narrative (a movement which also included Francesca Rosa, Kevin Killian, Sam D’Allesandro, Camille Roy, Dodie Bellamy, Mike Amnasan among others) assembled but also critiqued various experimental forms and techniques to a rather clear cut end — to ruin the locus, the ivory tower inhabited by a sole meaning-maker (the author) and replace it with a community of meaning-makers (the readers) who go beyond recognising themselves in a narrative and generate political and social change.
MH reviews Communal Nude by Robert Glück.