Poetry. LGBT Studies. Edited by Timothy Liu, himself an accomplished poet (VOX ANGELICA, SAY GOODNIGHT), the formidable anthology WORD OF MOUTH covers a vast range of work by twentieth-century gay American poets. Arranged in order of the poets' birthdates, so that the book shades gradually from older luminaries of the poetry scene to bright newcomers, the work here forms a sparkling composite picture of gay poetic sensibility in the U.S. Including Ashbery, Auden, Brainard, Bronk, Duncan, Denby, Doty, Elmslie, Ginsberg, Gunn, Killian, Koestenbaum, Lansing, Mead, Merrill, O'Hara, Phillips, Schuyler, Shurin, Spicer, Wieners, and Williams. The Hurricane Lamp by Jack Anderson In The Next Room by Jack Anderson A Lecture On Avant-garde Art by Jack Anderson A Partial Index To Myself by Jack Anderson A Reading Of This Poem by Jack Anderson True Loves by Jack Anderson A Way Of Happening by Jack Anderson Forgotten Sex by John Ashbery The Ice-cream Wars by John Ashbery The Laughter Of Dead Men by John Ashbery Sortes Vergilianae by John Ashbery They Dream Only Of America by John Ashbery Three Posthumous Poems: 1. Glad by Wystan Hugh Auden Three Posthumous Poems: 2. Aubade by Wystan Hugh Auden Three Posthumous Poems: 3. Minnelied by Wystan Hugh Auden Boy Wearing A Dress by Dan Bellm Open House by Dan Bellm True Story by Dan Bellm Knowing You Could Is Better Than Knowing You Will by Mark Bibbins Shine by Mark Bibbins Slutty by Mark Bibbins Tingling In The Extremities by Mark Bibbins By These Waters by Frank Bidart For The Twentieth Century by Frank Bidart In The Western Night: 1. The Irreparable by Frank Bidart In The Western Night: 2. In My Desk by Frank Bidart In The Western Night: 3. Two Men by Frank Bidart Luggage by Frank Bidart The Yoke by Frank Bidart Even On Sunday by Robin Francis Blaser In Remembrance by Robin Francis Blaser Chaco Canyon by Edgar Bowers I Remember, Sels. by Joe Brainard 17 March by William M. Bronk Anyway by William M. Bronk Bare by William M. Bronk Colloquy On A Bed by William M. Bronk Duplicity by William M. Bronk For My Friend, Jerry, He Drunk by William M. Bronk Friendly Greeting by William M. Bronk In April by William M. Bronk 'in Our Image, After Our Likeness' by William M. Bronk Lucifer by William M. Bronk My Shoulder For Robert. Help Us Both by William M. Bronk The Near Beyond by William M. Bronk Questions For Eros by William M. Bronk Scanning by William M. Bronk The Wall by William M. Bronk What You Can Do by William M. Bronk Your Way Too by William M. Bronk Afternoons In Ceylon by James Richard Broughton Wondrous The Merge by James Richard Broughton The Battle Hymn Of The Republic by Rafael Campo A Poet's Education by Rafael Campo Bending In by Tom Carey Birthday by Tom Carey Gay Pharmacy by Tom Carey Amalgam by Cyrus Curtis Cassells Fleur by Cyrus Curtis Cassells Sung From A Hospice by Cyrus Curtis Cassells Blues by Justin Chin Communion, Said The Barfly by Justin Chin On Aesthetics by Justin Chin Bl by Dennis Cooper Darkens by Dennis Cooper Jfk Jr. To Play Father In Film by Dennis Cooper My Past by Dennis Cooper Some Whore by Dennis Cooper Teen Idol by Dennis Cooper Seeing All The Vermeers by Alfred Dewitt Corn Against The See-through Plastic Curtain Of The West by Christopher Davis The Knower Of The Field by Christopher Davis Nod by Christopher Davis Noli Me Tangere by Christopher Davis The Pseudo-homosexual by Christopher Davis Sangre De Cristo by Christopher Davis Why Not Pleasure The Bigot's Body by Christopher Davis At First Sight, Not Pollock, Kline Scared by Edwin Denby Neighbor Sneaks Refuse To My Roof by Edwin Denby The Subway by Edwin Denby Summer by Edwin Denby Venice by Edwin Denby Villa D'este by Edwin Denby Archaeopteryx by William Dickey The Arrival Of The Titanic by William Dickey The Death Of John Berryman by William Dickey Plum by William Dickey T.s. Eliot At One Hundred And Seven by William Dickey D.o.a. by Tim Dlugos Desire Under The Pines by Tim Dlugos Here Comes The Bride by Tim Dlugos Ordinary Time by Tim Dlugos Pretty Convincing by Tim Dlugos Summer, South Brooklyn by Tim Dlugos Crepe De Chine by Mark Doty Difference by Mark Doty Where You Are: 1 by Mark Doty Where You Are: 2. Everywhere by Mark Doty Where You Are: 3. Van Gogh, Flowering Rosebushes: 1889 by Mark Doty Circulations Of The Song by Robert Duncan Bare Bones by Kenward Elmslie Callas by Edward Field Dietrich by Edward Field Garbo by Edward Field Getting To Know You by Edward Field Holy Men, All by Edward Field The Poetry File: Chicken Rampant, Bar Sinister by Edward Field Post Masturbatum by Edward Field Whatever Became Of Freud? by Edward Field Only Envy by Daisy Fried After