" 'Dear Kay, These letters will be famous after history has gone to sleep. Till then I'll dazzle with my nipples on the inside of a shirt, fulfilling to the genre what Liza and the Pet Shop Boys did to 'Losing my Mind' - elaborate, sustain, convoke a synthedup neurosis ballad, not going left, not going right.'
Yes, we did partially include this book for its incredibly queer, punny local title. What's the fun in having everything constructed for you with no lines to be bent? Scandalous, sweaty yet delicate poetry through letters are blurry trans-gay sexcapades, flirting on SEPTA, life going on. Kay Gabriel knows how to make a reader sit with discomfort through gorgeous vulgar humor."
--Shoshana
___________
2023 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST!
An epistolary sequence about sex, exchange and social space set along the Northeast Corridor.
In A Queen in Bucks County, our protagonist Turner, who both is and is not the writer, makes his pleasurable way through miserable space. Men "buy him things," lovers drive across state lines, users down volatile cocktails to see what happens, landlords turn tenants out, and Turner writes poetic tracts to friends about it. Part pornography, part novel, all love letter, A Queen in Bucks County is an experiment in turning language upside down to see what falls out.
