Bathroom Songs: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as a Poet

by Jason Edwards

Bathroom Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as a Poet is the first book of essays to consider the poetry of one of the twentieth- and early twenty-first-century’s most important literary, affect, and queer theorists. Acclaimed as one of the “truly innovative” poets of her generation by Maud Ellmann, Sedgwick’s work as a poet is, perhaps, less well known, but is no less compelling than her ground-breaking trilogy of queer theoretical Between English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, Epistemology of the Closet, and Tendencies. The book includes seven specially commissioned essays considering Sedgwick’s published poetry and writing about poets, by Angus Brown, Meg Boulton, Mary Baine Campbell, Jason Edwards, Kathryn R. Kent, Monica Pearl, and Benjamin Westwood, that range across the complete range of Sedgwick’s work, from her earliest published lyrics through her first collection of poetry, Fat Art, Thin Art , to her part-haiku, part-prose autobiography, A Dialogue on Love, and beyond. In addition, the book contains over forty of Sedgwick’s previously uncollected poems, ranging from her earliest poem on T.E. Lawrence to her final poem ‘Death’, introduced and contextualized by Edwards. TABLE OF CONTENTS // Part I. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as a Poet Jason Edwards — Bathroom Songs? Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as a Poet Angus Connell Brown — Look with Your Hands Ben Westwood — The Abject Animal Poetics of ‘The Warm Decembers’ Kathryn R. Kent — Eve’s Muse Mary Baine Campbell — ‘Shyly / as a big sister I would yearn / to trace its avocations’, or, Who’s the Muse? Monica Pearl — Queer On the Couch with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Meg Boulton — Waiting in the Some Musings on Sedgwick’s Performative(s) Part II. The Uncollected Poems Jason Edwards — Someday We’ll Look Back with Pleasure Even on Sedgwick’s Uncollected Poems Poems

306 pages, Paperback

Published November 9, 2017

About the author

Jason Edwards is a Houston native now living in San Antonio. He has been playing guitar
and drawing since the age of 16. As a former electrician of twelve years, Edwards then
moved into the telecommunications industry having spent five years installing new
equipment for all top tier carriers, both on the ground and on the tower. With a passion for
utilizing his imagination from a young age, Edwards decided to write his first children’s
book, Jason’s Imagination: The Rain King, based on his own experiences as a child.