Queer is a broad and radical response to the traditional gender roles of the heteropatriarchal world. Since literature draws from identity, queer writing incorporates the autobiographical experience and critical thought of its authors, and opens cracks in the dominant narrative of the global patriarchy. Today queer poetry is decisive for its ability to restore extraordinary plasticity to language: it allows rewriting an established, violent, rigid, and normative story, both socially and intimately, that excludes anyone who does not fit into the usual gender roles.
This anthology is conceived as a polyphonic book, the most honest way to approach queer desire. It does not aim to establish a canon, but to record a set of proposals that build a new narrative and document the search for a different affectivity and its radical freedom. Hence the selection of voices that stage the plurality of desire, both in forms and content, and explore new ways of sensitivity and sexual dissent, without forgetting social critique, decolonization, antiracism, and the presence of minority languages.
The compilation, made and introduced by Ángelo Néstore, gathers poems by Héctor Aceves, Txus García, Berta García Faet, Pol Guasch, Laia López Manrique, Antón Lopo, Roberta Marrero, Juanpe Sánchez López, Sara Torres, and Gabriela Wiener.
