Opera on TV

Opera on TV is a collection of experimental poetry/theory that examines the role of aesthetic practice in political subject formation particularly for queer and trans subjects. The book addresses the role of state institutions and economic structures in making our lives intelligible -- from our interpersonal relationships to our political identities and artistic endeavors. Many of the poems blend explorations of queer feminist aesthetics and politics with musicality and lyricism in a variety of forms such as prose blocks lists and transcripts. Drawing connections among themes of beauty nostalgia ideology and liberation Opera on TV suggests ways to complicate the notion of art as a mode of political education.