Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain is Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. She is the author of The Feminist Fourth Wave: Affective Temporalities (2017) and three books of poetry: House of Mouse (with S. J. Folwer, 2016), Coteries (2018) and *Retroviral (2018).

A valuable and edifying contribution, in particular, to the study of two under-theorized poets – Myles and Nelson – and, indeed, the messy, queer, lateral lines of influence between them.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction 1 The Poetics of Flippancy 2 He Cannot Understand Women. I Can’: Gertrude Stein and the Camp Butch 3 ‘There’s Nothing Metaphysical About It’: Frank O’Hara’s Flippant Manifesto and the Poetry of Tight Trousers4 ‘Who Are These Idiots Writing These Poems?’: Eileen Myles’ Pornographic Tone and Mutable Categories 5 ‘Was Harry a Woman? Was I a Straight Lady?’: Tensions of Heternormativity, Assimilation and the Second PersonConclusion ReferencesIndex