Double Rainbow

by Lonely Christopher

"Lonely Christopher’s Double Rainbow speaks to understanding an ever changing queer world caught in the motifs of history. Poems of and for plague times."

- Erin Taylor, author of Bimboland

"Reading Double Rainbow is like getting roundhouse-kicked repeatedly through plate glass. The poems are bold, broken, and no mercy is shown."

- Brian Alan Ellis, author of Bad Poet

"Double Rainbow has Lonely Christopher revel in the simultaneous grime and isolation that defines New York City. The relationships, the awkward encounters, all of these feel painful, as if the reader is indulging in the utmost extremity of voyeurism. Everything here goes right for the jugular – these interactions are confessional conveying the harshness that comes from trying to find even the smallest of connections. By far the most intriguing element is the usage of Disney throughout – the allusions to their perfect happy technicolor dreamland contrasted starkly against the mundane reality. I teared up reading these because I rarely encounter work that feels this honest."

- Beach Sloth, blogs hard

Genres: Poetry

44 pages, Chapbook

Published January 28, 2021

About the author

LONELY CHRISTOPHER is the author of the short story collection The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, several poetry chapbooks, and the volume Into (with Christopher Sweeney and Robert Snyderman). As a librettist and playwright, his dramatic works have been published, staged in New York City and internationally, and released in Mandarin translation. He is a founding member of the small press The Corresponding Society and an editor of its biannual journal Correspondence. He lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn