Queer : A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday ed. By Frank Wynne Manuel Forcano the futures we never let

the futures we never let happen

corruption and consumption are blurred

Carcanet's ninth title by the most celebrated living American poet

Exploring the riches of emerald lore

Exploring the colourful words

Queer : A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday ed. By Frank Wynne Manuel Forcano the futures we never letDrawing together writing from Catullus to Sappho, from Arthur Rimbaud to Anne Lister and Armistead Maupin, translator Frank Wynne has collected eighty of the finest works representing queer love by LGBTQ authors. These pieces straddle the spectrum of queer experience, from Verlaine's sonnet in praise of his lover's anus and Emily Dickinson's exhortation of a woman's beauty, to Alison Bechdel's graphic novel of her coming out, Juno Dawson's reflections