The Rise of Genderqueer: Poems by Wren Hanks
"We are witnessing the birth of an extraordinary voice in these poems" --Roy G. Guzmán, author of Restored Mural for Orlando
The Rise of Genderqueer is a groundbreaking poetry collection that constructs an authentic voice exploring gender identity with uncompromising honesty. Lambda Emerging Writers Fellow Wren Hanks delivers prose poems that press into assumptions about gender, demanding readers reconsider what they know about identity, nature, and self-expression.
About This Poetry Collection
These poems fill the page from margin to margin, carrying authentic wisdom and delivering keen arguments while disarming readers with sly wit. Hanks challenges the status quo with the grace of a flower slid into a rifle barrel—powerful yet precise. The collection features prose forms studded with rhetoric remastered and sampled from contemporary culture and conversations.
At the heart of this work is an insistence: "I'll never be denatured, // I am nature." Through these poems, readers witness a bigger world where light floods every corner, revealing what has always been true, vigorous, and expansive about gender and identity.
About 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.
Product Details
Published by Brain Mill Press as part of the Mineral Point Poetry series in September 2018, this paperback collection offers an incomparable reading experience for those interested in contemporary queer literature and gender exploration. The collection has received praise from established voices in LGBTQ+ poetry and represents an important contribution to conversations about gender identity in modern poetry.
