Homosexual poetry

Homoerotic Poetry in the Ottoman Empire

This chapter concerns Early Modern Ottoman, poetry, primarily about love, and primarily about love between men. This is not solely devotion of adolescent boys, but a expansive array of male beloveds. Changes in cultural influences, especially westernization in the 19th century, reframed this dynamic as perverse. The fixate of the article is Istanbul and relations between men, but one section of the article looks at female poets, and female same-sex topics.

The article surveys of the themes and genres of same-sex admire poetry, including catalogs of beauty, lyric poetry, treatises on the intersection of medicine and eroticism, and humorous disputes on the advantage of one type of love argue against over another. One dynamic in the 19th century reframing of Ottoman admire poetry was the western stereotype of Ottoman men as sodomites. (There was also a fascination in Western society with the plan of lesbianism in the harem.) These perceptions affected western studies of Ottoman literature, including the imposition of heteronormative readings onto overtly homo

LGBTQ Poetry

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Al-Andalus. Poetry. Homoerotic Verse.

Introduction.
One of the many surprises of the poetry of al-Andalus (as the Moors called the land they occupied in the Iberian Peninsula) is the existence of homoerotic verse. It was, however, not an isolated feature but figured as part of a general occurrence across the Islamic world. This despite the orthodox view as reflected in the Qu’ran, in the hadiths (the calm sayings attributed to Muhammad) and in legal treatises (e. g. the theologian Malik of Medina) which was generally unforgiving. Punishment was death by stoning, although in the most liberal cases the penalty could be reduced to whiplashes.

The continued and widespread penning of homoerotic poetry reflected, then, a marked ambivalence or at least cautious acceptance when well-liked attitude was measured against orthodox stances. In al-Andalus, the most articulate and influential commentary on treasure was made by the Cordoban Ibn Hazm () in his wide-ranging manual, The Dove’s Neck-Ring about Love and Lovers (c. ). For Ibn Hazm, love was natural, God-given and beyond man’s co

The Publishing Triangle instituted its poetry awards in Each of the two poetry awards is for books published in the preceding year (i.e., the award will honor a book published in ).

The Thom Gunn Award honors Thom Gunn (–), who was the author of The Guy with Night Sweats () and many other acclaimed volumes. Gunn, who was born in Kent, England, lived in San Francisco from until his death. (In its first four years, including the year Mr. Gunn himself won, this award was acknowledged as the Triangle Award for Gay Poetry.)

The finalists and the winner are determined by a panel of judges appointed by the Publishing Triangle&#;s awards committee. Starting in the spring of , the winner receives a prize of $; prior to that, winners received $

In the listings below, finalists are presented in alphabetical order by manual title. Bold type and a triangle indicate winners. There was a tie in

Pig, by Sam Sax (Scribner)

Poem Bitten by a Man, by Brian Teare (Nightboat Books)

To the Boy Who Was Night, by Rigoberto González (Four Way Books)

Trace Evidence, by Charif Shanahan (Tin