Hybrid poetic style blends Latin, pop culture, etymology, politics, and sex for a unique linguistic experience
Experimental structure with run-ons, misspellings, and elisions creates fresh associations and surprises
Engages with themes of identity, language, and cultural hybridity for intellectually rigorous exploration
Shortlisted for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award, recognizing its significance in transgender poetry
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By Julian Talamantez Brolaski
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Of Mongrelitude is a colloquy on the mongrel body, textual and actual, sexual, specieal, and racial. Composed in a hybrid style, it makes the argument that everything can and does come into ‘englyssh’: ancient and invented languages, european and indigenous, tongues not yet named.
