THE MOTEL CLERK’S SON STEPS ON THE GLASS at his wedding to recall his people’s suffering during his greatest joy. The stepping is shorthand: the shortest alphabet is steepest. A car horn to tell his ancestors, “I see you, may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth should I forget.” He sounds out the glass because, as truckers say in the office, “If you can’t see them,…
The author of Genesis A/B, an Old English verse interpretation of the Hebrew Bible’s Book of Genesis, expands considerably upon certain aspects and details of the creation story. The elaboration most relevant to this entry is the additional details given to the creation of Adam and Eve, the Biblical first humans. The original Genesis story is sparse, limiting the narrative to the creation of the bodies of the humans: Adam…
Medievalist A.W. Strouse rejects academic queer theory as another “tediously” normative tradition, writing instead in a vein of self-described “irresponsible homo-medievalism” that utilizes medieval text as a “technology of self-preservation”. In the introduction of My Gay Middle Ages, he writes: “First of all, the heroine of the Consolation is this great big fierce diva, whose name is Lady Philosophy. She’s a Lady, and she doesn’t stand for anybody’s crap. At…
