Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II

by Jim Elledge

Masquerade is the most comprehensive anthology yet published of poetry by American gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered persons. It includes representative poems from more than 100 writers from pre-colonial times to the end of the Second World War. The anthology begins with selections of anonymous texts from the oral traditions of Hawaii and Native America, followed by voodoo chants and cowboy songs (with a few limericks thrown in for good...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253216346
• ISBN13: 9780253216342
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"