The Rosebud Variations

<p>In this debut collection of poetry and prose Jaydn DeWald explores the relationships between individuality and community queerness and the bourgeois nuclear family genre expectations and a postmodern awareness even distrust of literary production. Can the imagination forge intimacy love? Impact history? Or do imaginers merely exile themselves from the world? In a series of obsessive poetic sequences the speaker-narrators of <em>The Rosebud Variations</em> variously pit themselves against giants of Western art and the heteronormative desires/values that all too often underpin them.</p>