The Rise of Genderqueer: Poems: The Mineral Point Poetry Series, #7

By Wren Hanks

"We are witnessing the birth of an extraordinary voice in these poems" —Roy G. Guzmán, author of Restored Mural for Orlando

A truly incomparable collection, The Rise of Genderqueer constructs a voice with unmitigated and authentic yearning. Its poems soak ink into page from margin to margin, pressing into the reader's assumptions about gender unmercifully. These poems demand, carry authentic wisdom, deliver keen argument, and disarm with sly wit. Wren Hanks challenges the status quo as neatly as a flower slid into the barrel of a rifle. These are utterly convincing prose forms studded with rhetoric he's deftly remastered and sampled from our culture and conversations right now.

"I'll never be denatured, // I am nature," Hanks's poems insist, as the reader bears witness to a bigger world, light flooding into every corner, revealing what has always been true, vigorous, and expansive.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Brain Mill Press
• Release date: Sep 4, 2018
• ISBN: 9781948559126

Wren Hanks

Wren Hanks is the author of Prophet Fever (Hyacinth Girl Press) and co-editor of Curious Specimens (Sundress Publications), an anthology of the strange and uncanny. A 2016 Lambda Emerging Writers Fellow, his work appears or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, Foglifter, Gigantic Sequins, Waxwing, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and tweets @suitofscales.

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The Mineral Point Poetry Series

Tanka & Me

Kaethe Schwehn

My Seaborgium

Alicia Rebecca Myers

Fair Day in an Ancient Town

Greg Allendorf

My Tall Handsome

Emily Corwin

A Wife Is a Hope Chest

Christine Brandel

Black Genealogy

Kiki Petrosino

The Rise of Genderqueer

Wren Hanks

This Is Still Life

Tracy Mishkin

Life on Dodge

Rita Feinstein

Calf Canyon

Sarah McCartt-Jackson

Copyright © 2018 by Wren Hanks.

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Brain Mill Press.

Print ISBN 978-1-948559-09-6

EPUB ISBN 978-1-948559-12-6

MOBI ISBN 978-1-948559-10-2

PDF ISBN 978-1-948559-11-9

Cover photograph Through the Veil © H. Esmé Park.

Cover design by Oona Miller.

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The Mineral Point Poetry Series, number 7.

Published by Brain Mill Press, the Mineral Point Poetry Series is edited by Kiki Petrosino. In odd