Rocksong by Golnoosh Nour Robin Thomas ricochet off unavoidable events and

ricochet off unavoidable events and come to speak unbearable revelations

As antagonisms and intimacies converge

the deals we do to stay human in the dehumanising conditions of the twenty-first century

and the Americans James Schuyler and Charles Reznikoff

Rocksong by Golnoosh Nour Robin Thomas ricochet off unavoidable events andROCKSONG is a shamelessly baroque ride through the nadirs and summits of the contemporary queer. Its a decadent book, where decadence isnt a cipher for self indulgence, but a fierce and fugitive resistance. As Audre Lorde writes We survived and survival breeds desire for more self. Or, in the glowing neon precincts of Rocksong, more selves, plural. These poems flirt and confront in turns, they seduce and attack, they are tender and grotesque. They