In her Los Angeles Review of Books essay “Who Is Who: Pronouns, Gender, and Merging Selves,” Dana Levin describes Stacey Waite’s fusion of gender identities: “Pseudonyms, heteronyms, personae, all the ventriloquizing literary arts; point of view and tonal shifts: these are tools for speakers and speaking. But the sentence too has a voice: ‘i will not be the kind of boy who can not bear the memory of her body’ … This is [Waite’s] genius … to take innocuous syntactical phrasing and change the players mid-sentence – to get around English’s pronominal either/or by creating a syntactical both/and…”
Author: Stacey Waite
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Tupelo Press
Published: 01/01/2014
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d
ISBN: 9781936797257
Language: English
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