Kissing Other People or the House of Fame

A book in two halves, Kissing Other People or the House of Fame opens with a sequence of poems that roam the grotty, sublime streets: patting rats, reading pamphlets, enduring labour, acquiring falafel, waving to friends. Then the book flips on a seam and invokes Chaucer as an unlikely guide through a series of dream-blocks, each autonomous yet resonant with attachments and perversions as they come and go, repeat and echo. The book is as staunch as it is warm – one arm extended in a hug and the other cupped over the mouth to shield a secret (weapon).

About the author

Kay Gabriel is a poet and essayist. With Andrea Abi-Karam, she co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat, 2020). She¿s the author of A Queen in Bucks County (Nightboat Books, 2022).

Summary

A book in two halves, Kissing Other People or the House of Fame opens with a sequence of poems that roam the grotty, sublime streets: patting rats, reading pamphlets, enduring labour, acquiring falafel, waving to friends. Then the book flips on a seam and invokes Chaucer as an unlikely guide through a series of dream-blocks, each autonomous yet resonant with attachments and perversions as they come and go, repeat and echo. The book is as staunch as it is warm – one arm extended in a hug and the other cupped over the mouth to shield a secret (weapon).

Product details

• Authors: Kay Gabriel
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.2023
• EAN: 9781643621791
• ISBN: 978-1-64362-179-1
• No. of pages: 80
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; POETRY / Women Authors, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), POETRY / LGBTQ+, Relating to Trans / Transgender people or gender minorities, Modern and contemporary poetry / poems