Queer is a broad and radical response to the traditional gender roles of the heteropatriarchal universe. Since literature is nourished by identity, queer writing incorporates the autobiographical experience and critical thinking of its authors, opening cracks in the dominant narrative of the global patriarchy. Today, queer poetry is decisive for its ability to restore extraordinary plasticity to language: it allows rewriting an established, violent, rigid, and normative story, both socially and intimately, that excludes anyone who does not fit into the usual gender roles.
This anthology is conceived as a polyphonic book, the most honest way to approach queer desire. It does not aim to establish a canon but to document a set of proposals that build a new narrative and record the search for a different affectivity and its radical freedom. Hence the selection of voices that stage the plurality of desire, both in form and content, and explore new ways of sensitivity and sexual dissidence, without forgetting social critique, decolonization, anti-racism, and the presence of minority languages.
The compilation, edited and introduced by Ángelo Néstore, brings together poems by Héctor Aceves, Txus García, Berta García Faet, Pol Guasch, Laia López Manrique, Antón Lopo, Roberta Marrero, Juanpe Sánchez López, Sara Torres, and Gabriela Wiener.
