A Day for a Lay: A Century of Gay Poetry

by Gavin Dillard

From Greece's forthright Cavafy to France's renegade Genet; from Oscar Wilde's beloved Lord Alfred Douglas to Ginsberg and the Beats; from senior poets such as Harold Norse to the kids who will be writing poems in the new millennium--Gavin Dillard, one of the world's best-loved contemporary poets, has gathered the best of the 20th Century gay poetry "lest it be lost to us except in the lonely vaults of queer archives."

Genres: Poetry, LGBT

303 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1999

Reviews

[Malcolm · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are some great poems here as well as some mediocre poems, some insightful poems and some vulgar poems. If you like gay poetry, this anthology is definitely worth a look. I did a quick skim through this book but I may order it again from my library's remote borrowing service, MNLink. The Two Harbors, MN, library wouldn't carry a book such as this one, it's being too far "out there" for a small town library.