Gay Heaven Is a Dance Floor But I Can't RelaxCharles Theonia Like meeting under a disco ball, or listening to Arthur Russell on the Staten Island Ferry, Gay Heaven Is a Dance Floor but I Cant Relax proposes reading as a form of friendship. Conversational, inquisitive, and scrutinizing, this book goes out to anyone who has loved someone theyll never get to meet. charles theonia is a Brooklyn poet, enthusiast, and transsexual without direction. They are the author of chaplet If a Piece Falls off

“We drag histories behind us

and journalist

Maar als je de linzen op je bord aanziet voor een ziekte onder de microscoop

from Prynne’s radical transformation and dispersal of the lyric tradition to Oliver’s adaptation of dream visions and medieval-inspired verse satires

Ashbery's rendering powerfully evokes the glittering

brought back into print by Nightboat Books on the tenth anniversary of its original publication

receding boundaries

as the drawings may have been to the original cave poets composing them as image and sound

Hoe betrap je het heden op zichzelf

In the three parts that make up the book

the time of nature is inherently political

This organization brings distinctions between versions into relief