Contents
I Need My O’Hara Frank
1.
Celebrity
Thermopylae
Get Thee to a Nunnery.
My Parents’ 50th Wedding Anniversary
The Year Annie Lennox Released “Why”
The Book of Folly
The Dancing Lesbian
The Book of Daniel
Blind Date
Pretty
A Critical History of Contemporary American Poetry
2.
Trigger Warning:
Diagnosis
Eight Suicides
Cosmopolitan Greetings
The Pulitzer Prize
Living
Delayed Elegy
When the Towers Came Down
A History of Sex
For Men Who Have Never Made Love to a Man
All My Life
I Pledge Allegiance to the Fag
3.
Shia LaBeouf Enters
“The Only One” by Hilton Als
Faggotry
Once I Was Seven Sandra Bullocks
Blooper Reel
Contemporary Art
Backbiter
Her Blue Body Everything We Know
The Trump Years
Dumb Mouth
Poetry can save the world!
You Better Get Used to This
4.
I Wish I Knew Things
Gold Dog Moon
The Rest of It
“Things I Could Never Tell My Mother”
Alexander McQueen
Tumor Moon,
Blanket
Strong Place
The Crystal Lithium
There’s Still One Story
Elegy
Notes
Acknowledgments