Poems

This creative thesis is a collection of poems and lyric forms that explore queer identity and difference through the fraught navigation of heteronormative spaces and institutions such as the American school system, the Catholic Church, and marriage. Included are letters-as-poems, journal fragments, and extended lyrical sequences that serve to highlight the significance of community and chosen family to queer identity. When they aren’t addressed to an imagined recipient, they are dedicated to or in conversation with friends, family, lovers, strangers, past selves, and other writers. Although the three sections (LETTERS, FIRE, and HEARTH) that demarcate this work chart a thematic chronology that organizes stages of a queer life, memory isn’t cleanly linear. Poems pour into and echo each other, signifying embodied history in the present and the past’s bearings on queer (re)imaginings of the future.

Book Where Every Poem is a Spoke on a Wheel of the Party Wagon is a collection of poems that experiment with formal poetic structures to challenge abusive familial and religious structures, repurposing faithful sensibility to empower an irreverent speaker. Poems in this collection rewrite prayers, revise the outcomes of familial estrangement, and recollect history in order to reclaim the author’s queer American childhood, adulthood, and Catholic faith traditions.

Law and the gospel! Speech of Honorable S.S. Cox. Notes: Cover title. Includes verse.

Cincinnati daily times (Cincinnati, Ohio : 1861). Includes correspondence and verse. "Delivered in Pike's Opera House, April 16, 1865." "The following scenes, descriptive ... of Mr. Gaddis' sermon, is taken from the Cincinnati daily times, Monday, April 18th"--Page [3]-5. One of 3,000 copies. FAU Libraries' copy edges have been trimmed to 22 cm.

The continent is trembling [poem, by E. Delafield Smith] -- Address at Union Square, at the war meeting ... in response to an appeal of the President ... for additional military forces -- Speech at Madison Square at the meeting held April 20, 1863 -- Resolutions presented ... at a union meeting held at Cooper Institute, New York, October 29, 1863.

Includes verse. Prefaced by a speech by Gen. Walbridge. Also published as no. 73 of the pamphlets of the Loyal Publication Society. FAU Libraries' copy has original printed wrappers; side stitched with cord.

letters and speeches published by order of the committee of arrangements under the supervision of John Austin Stevens, Jr., secretary. Includes "A song of our country and her flag," by Francis Lieber, and "Ode" by William Ross Wallace. FAU Libraries' copy edges trimmed to 22 cm. Has inscription: To the New Jersey Historical Society, from S. Alofsen. Jan. 6th. 1863. Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865 Letter, July 14, 1862, to James W. White, Robert H. McCurdy, and F.H. Winston. Lieber, Francis 1800-1872 Song of our country and her flag.

Includes verse. Includes bibliographical references.

"August 8, 1861." "John A. Gray, Printer, Stereotyper, and Binder"--Front cover. Includes verse. Includes bibliographical references. FAU copy has original printed wrappers; side stitched with cord.

Includes verse. Caption title. FAU copy edges trimmed to 21 cm.