"Canonized for being insufficiently American although he took America as his subject, chastised for obscurity by readers who would not allow or would not read h

The first full-length study to explore the idea of a 'gay epic' in American poetry.

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First Published in 2000. A rich heritage that needs to be documented Beginning in 1869, when the study of homosexuality can be said to have begun with the estab