Böcker av Dwight Cathcart

Adriana Books: The Complete Blog, 2010-2021, Volumes 1 & 2, contain all of the posts to the blog on Adriana Books, written by Dwight Cathcart. They are prompted by the huge changes in the lives of LGBTQ people during this recent decade and by the question of the future. The essays are short, easily accessible, pointed and penetrating on topics that confront LGBTQ people today. From the question of coming out to the issue of teen-age suicides among LGBTQ youth and, of course, to the achievement of marriage equality and its effect on all of us, these essays discuss tactics and strategy-all from the perspective of a queer man right at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It never forgets the history of LGBTQ people or the LGBTQ people who were damaged and are continuing to be damaged by the action of the bigoted and the ignorant.

Adriana Books: The Complete Blog, 2010-2021, Volumes 1 & 2, contain all of the posts to the blog on Adriana Books, written by Dwight Cathcart. They are prompted by the huge changes in the lives of LGBTQ people during this recent decade and by the question of the future. The essays are short, easily accessible, pointed and penetrating on topics that confront LGBTQ people today. From the question of coming out to the issue of teen-age suicides among LGBTQ youth and, of course, to the achievement of marriage equality and its effect on all of us, these essays discuss tactics and strategy-all from the perspective of a queer man right at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It never forgets the history of LGBTQ people or the LGBTQ people who were damaged and are continuing to be damaged by the action of the bigoted and the ignorant.

LGBTQ people do not have a literature that reflects us. We differ by race, class, geography, gender, and age, and our fiction ignores most of us. We don't have novels about LGBTQ people who are discriminated against and abused and murdered. This is the result of the publishing industry, but it is also a result of our writers, who hesitate to write about the real lives of LGBTQ people. We know we are being abused, and our literature doesn't show us LGBTQ people who rebel. The Earthrise essays explore the effect of that failure.

Solemnly or frivolously, the men and women of Donne's poetry argue the question: What are we to do? Should we weep? Should we make love? Donne's poetry is a poetry of argument - a fact that has been noted by other critics. The brilliance of Cathcart's study lies in its identification and close analysis of the particular kind of argument encountered in the poetry.