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    In Response
    In Response
    In Response
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    In Response

    By Claude Moore

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    Claude Moore delivers a thought-provoking set of poetic forms on queer theory and LGBTQIA+ identity. Part poetic essay, part autobiography, part fantasy: Moore explores the amalgamations of being themself in response to the exterior world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParlyaree Press
    Release dateMay 30, 2023
    ISBN9781961206045
    In Response
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    Claude Moore

    Claude Moore is a pseudonym. Claude Moore is an idea. Is a poet. Is an amalgamation. Claude Moore is a container-like a book in that way-broken open. Claude Moore uses they/them pronouns in respect of their namesakes who did not have that language, yet provided every nuance to the words. Their first book of poetry, In Response is out Summer 2023 from Parlyaree Press.

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      In Response - Claude Moore

      In Response

      CLAUDE MOORE

      Parlyaree Press

      Atlanta, Georgia

      www.parlyaree.com

      Copyright © 2023 by Claude Moore

      All Rights Reserved

      Printed in the United States of America

      First Edition, 2023

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Moore, Claude, author.

      Title: In Response / Claude Moore

      Description: First Edition | Atlanta : Parlyaree Press, 2023

      Identifiers: LCCN: 2023908817 | ISBN 9781961206038 (paperback)

      Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/

      Design by Parlyaree Press

      Front Cover/Title Typeface is Continuo by Delve Withrington from Delve Fonts & Avenir designed by Adrian Frutiger and released by Linotype GmbH. Glyphs from Espiritu, Cardo, Apple Symbols, and LTC Fleurons.

      Cover Imagery (Pressed Pansies) Licensed from Adobe.

      Interior Text Typeface is Clarendon URW from URW Type Foundry.

      Print ISBN: 978-1-961206-03-8

      Ebook ISBN: 978-1-961206-04-5

      To myself, which may not be very couth,

      but I've worked so hard to find me.

      Table of Contents

      Take, for instance, this:

      What, you may ask

      Each poem is an argument with myself

      You erase me from your histories and ask why I am so new

      Viscus

      If I am to be

      Tell me of your

      Autodidact

      An understatement

      He moved with a stuttering grace

      Emerge: lift out of the soil

      My garden

      If we are to speak, let us speak in code

      I was unaware then

      Who are you, then, to make my body a political one

      Govern-Nance

      Push forward

      You: who would take the universe to bed with you

      In

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