Overview

Stacey Waite's newest collection of poems interrogates gender, sexuality, and parenthood. From a genderqueer perspective, the poems set their unflinching gaze on the habits and impacts of masculinity. Poignant, angry, heartfelt, and at times funny, this collection asks us, again and again: What kind of world do we make with gender?

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Author:   Stacey Waite
Publisher:   University of New Mexico Press
Imprint:   University of New Mexico Press
ISBN:  

9780826367488

ISBN 10:   0826367488
Pages:   88
Publication Date:   31 March 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part One Honest Poem Mothers and Men Scar 1986 Masculinity I The Four Nights She’s Gone Queer Body in Summer, 1989 Karen Berry The Tie That Binds Masculinity II Being Queer in High School Boyfriend, 1992 Masculinity III Everything is Everything Notes on Matt Damon Part Two Men Who Think I Am One of Them Speak: We know that guy, and he is not a rapist. Men Who Think I Am One of Them Speak: She really let herself go. Men Who Think I Am One of Them Speak: Check out that ass. Masculinity IV Men Who Think I Am One of Them Speak: You’re not going to write poems about your kids now, right? Men Who Think I Am One of Them Speak: Yeah but, you know, why is she bringing this up now? Men Who Think I Am One of Them Speak: I forget you’re a woman sometimes. Masculinity V Men Who Think I Am One of Them Speak: You know what I’m saying, right? Men Who Think I Am One of Them Speak: Dude, we are going to have to fight them off with sticks. Masculinity VI Part Three Bathroom Poem Give Us Your Pronouns Reading Queer Masculinity VII Deadlocked When Butches Shoot Pool The Kill Religious Liberty Accommodations Act Masculinity VIII Thankfully, you will have taught me freedom within constraints Your Father Some Notes on Family When I Imagine the Day of Your Birth Letter to My Grandfather The Hit Man A Toast to My Body at Forty-Two The Cloud Looks Like a Breaking Wave Masculinity IX Acknowledgements

Reviews

""A Real Man Would Have a Gun believes in poetry's ability to salve and save. In it, Stacey Waite walks a tight rope of language in these well-wrought poems that celebrate and question gender as much as they serve to cherish family. And these poems know no bounds. They chat and scream and whisper—and they even dance if you count the Cupid Shuffle. This is a brilliant beauty of a book."" - Jericho Brown, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Tradition ""This book isn't only bold, it's tender and broken and more complex than the tired trope of 'queer triumph.' This book is about family and memory and fuckups through the eyes of a poet who understands that sometimes you can't extinguish rage; it just 'turn[s] into / a fire of a different kind.' We all can see ourselves in this book's magnificent glow."" - Aaron Smith, author of Stop Lying: Poems ""I will never get over the poems of Stacey Waite—and I don't want to. A Real Man Would Have a Gun is both slow burn and bright flame, lyric compression and narrative expansion, a book that breaks childhood and parenthood, gender and sexuality—embodiment itself—freshly and sharply open."" - Julie Marie Wade, author of Skirted

Author Information

Stacey Waite is an associate professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the author of Teaching Queer: Radical Possibilities for Writing and Knowing as well as several previous collections of poems, including Butch Geography and the lake has no saint.

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