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“Super Gay Poems”

2025/7/1
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Stephanie Burt: 我希望读者能通过诗歌体验到各种情感，包括自我认同、新奇、美丽、幽默、性感和悲伤。诗歌不仅仅是文字的堆砌，更是情感的载体，能够触动人心，引发共鸣。我希望读者在阅读这些诗歌时，能够找到与自己情感相通的部分，感受到被理解和被接纳的温暖。同时，我也希望这些诗歌能够拓展读者的视野，让他们看到不同的生活方式和情感表达，从而更加包容和理解多元的世界。 Stephanie Burt: 我更加意识到充分代表、新代表、半代表和不代表之间的区别，因为我生活中有些方面，如果我想读到相关的诗歌，可能需要自己创作，因为我还没有读到能让我满意的诗歌。这意味着在酷儿诗歌领域，仍然存在着许多未被充分表达的声音和情感。我们需要更多的诗人站出来，用自己的笔触描绘出更加真实、多元的酷儿生活，让更多的人能够从中找到自己的影子。

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This chapter introduces Stephanie Burt and her anthology, "Super Gay Poems," focusing on its significance as a collection of LGBTQ+ poetry starting after the Stonewall Uprising. It highlights the diverse emotional responses the poems evoke in readers.
  • Stephanie Burt, a professor and literary critic, compiled "Super Gay Poems", an anthology of LGBTQ+ poetry.
  • The anthology's poems begin after the 1969 Stonewall Uprising.
  • The poems elicit a wide range of emotional responses from readers, including personal identification, surprise, and aesthetic appreciation.

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In 2024, Harvard University offered a course on Taylor Swift. It was popular, to say the least. That course was taught by a professor and literary critic named Stephanie Burt. In The New Yorker, Burt has written) seriously about comics and science fiction, but she’s also considered great poets such as Seamus Heaney and Mary Oliver. Now, Burt has put together an anthology titled, “Super Gay Poems).” It’s a collection of L.G.B.T.Q. poetry, whose contents begin after the Stonewall uprising), in 1969. When describing the collection, Burt tells the New Yorker Radio Hour producer Jeffrey Masters, “ There are poems where we read it and we say, Wow, that’s me. And there are poems where we read it and we say, Wow, I didn’t know that can happen; that’s not me; that’s new to me; that’s different. And there are poems where we read them and we just say, That’s beautiful. That is elegant. That is funny. That is sexy. That is hot. That is so sad that I don’t know why I like it, but I do. And I like making those experiences available to readers.”