The Shore

The five poem-essays of Chris Nealon's The Shore give space and voice to the complexity of contemporary life, admitting bafflement and dismay but also creating openings for indiscreet hope. Queer and anti-capitalist, they urge us not to be ruled by our fears, while always ethically navigating the forces--race, class, age, gender, and others--that put us each in different places of power. Nimbly exploring connections among beauty, friendship, and politics, The Shore gives our era of crisis a language at once vernacular and philosophical, in a form that's both teeming and fluid.

Author: Chris Nealon
Publisher: Wave Books
Published: 04/07/2020
Pages: 104
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.50h x 6.10w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9781940696973
ISBN10: 1940696976
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
- Poetry | LGBTQ+
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | General

About the Author
Chris Nealon is Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of two books of literary criticism, Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall (Duke, 2001) and The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in The American Century (Harvard, 2011), as well as three earlier books of poetry: The Joyous Age (Black Square Editions, 2004), Plummet (Edge Books, 2009), and Heteronomy (Edge, 2014). He lives in Washington, DC.