Gay big bad reading list, addendum

I decided I could also post my Amazon wish list as part of the reading list I began here. (not everything on this wish list is gay related, though most of it is)

Wonderful reader Marshall pointed out that I should say something about what this reading list is for, e.g. what kind of focus my dissertation will take. Good question! I am still formulating things, but basically I hope it will use contemporary gay poetry as its subject and, via a queer hermeneutics, will examine how identity shapes poetics. But I imagine it will also look at queer theory, gay culture interpreted by all kinds of writers, gay fiction, gay autobiography, etc.

Hope that clarifies. It's the best I can do right now.

Here's that wish list I mentioned.

1.		queersexlife: Autobiographical Notes on Sexuality, Gender & Identity by Terry Goldie (Author)	$17.56	1	0
2.		Gay Artists in Modern American Culture: An Imagined Conspiracy (Caravan Book) by Michael S. Sherry	$22.76	1	0
3.		Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History by Scott Herring	$22.50	1	0
4.		Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry by Stephen Burt	$12.92	1	0
5.		The Art of the Poetic Line by James Longenbach	$8.40	1	0
6.		Closeted Writing And Lesbian And Gay Literature: Classical, Early Modern, Eighteenth-century by David M. Robinson	$120.00	1	0
7.		The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities by Robert McRuer	$23.00	1	0
8.		Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays by Camille Paglia	$11.21	1	0
9.		Best Gay Poetry 2008 by Lawrence Schimel (Author)	$14.95	1	0
10.		A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1997-2008 by Adrienne Cecile Rich	$15.19	1	0
11.		Poetry and Commitment by Adrienne Cecile Rich	$6.95	1	0
12.		Poetic Voices Without Borders by Robert L. Giron (Editor)	$15.60	1	0
13.		The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song (Art of...) by Ellen Bryant Voigt	$9.60	1	0
14.		Mapping the Territory: Selected Nonfiction by Christopher Bram (Author)	$16.29	1	0
15.		The Culture of Queers by Richard Dyer	$130.00	1	0
16.		Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian and Queer Essays on Popular Culture (Series Q) by John Hepworth (Author), et al.	$28.95	1	0
17.		In Another Part Of The Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction by Alberto Manguel (Editor)		1	0
18.		The Penguin Book of International Gay Writing by Mark Mitchell (Editor)		1	0
19.		Reflecting Narcissus: A Queer Aesthetic by Steven Bruhm	$26.00	1	0
20.		Outline of My Lover by Douglas A. Martin, Douglas A. Martin		1	0
21.		The Writer's quotation book: A literary companion by James Charlton (Editor)		1	0
22.		Spindrift by Allen Steele		1	0
23.		The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman		1	0
24.		Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer	$6.99	1	0
25.		Ink: The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan	$12.44	1	0
26.		Vellum: The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan	$10.76	1	0
27.		The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind by John Leonard (Introduction)		1	0
28.		Everything You Pretend to Know And Are Afraid Someone Will Ask by Lynette Padwa	$9.60	1	0
29.		An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn't by Judy Jones, William Wilson	$23.10	1	0
30.		First Person Queer: Who We Are (So Far) by Richard Labonté (Editor), Lawrence Schimel (Editor)	$15.80	1	0
31.		Soul Says: On Recent Poetry by Helen Hennessy Vendler, Helen Vendler	$16.50	1	0
32.		Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? by Harold Bloom (Author)		1	0
33.		Vamps & Tramps: New Essays by Camille Paglia	$14.49	1	0
34.		Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems by Camille Paglia