Rocksong Noelle Stevenson And as old Cold War

And as old Cold War tensions begin to tear his life apart

A close contemporary of Dennis Cooper

Seiji Katayma

each of the so-called 'biblical texts of terror' used to demonise LGBT people is considered in turn and found wanting

Rocksong Noelle Stevenson And as old Cold WarROCKSONG is a shamelessly baroque ride through the nadirs and summits of the contemporary queer. Its a decadent book, where decadence isnt a cipher for self indulgence, but a fierce and fugitive resistance. As Audre Lorde writes We survived and survival breeds desire for more self. Or, in the glowing neon precincts of Rocksong, more selves, plural. These poems flirt and confront in turns, they seduce and attack, they are tender and grotesque. They