Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners Minnesota Why are Americans being forced

Why are Americans being forced to consider homosexual acts as morally acceptable

gay and straight

"--Gay and Lesbian Review

and he shines a light on how those traditions have found ways to survive--and even thrive--in spite of being the victims of revisionist history

" My birth name is Elizabeth

Supplication: Selected Poems of John Wieners Minnesota Why are Americans being forcedThere is no doubt in my mind or in anyone's mind who knows these poems well that they are major American poetry and will be in anthologies for one hundred years, I mean that good. Allen Ginsberg A graceful rigor seems to be Wieners' natural mode; we feel the force of deliberation in his most free forms he is never casual. The grace is miraculous, for he aims at intensities, by orders that shape and then restrict feeling to the ardent. Robert Duncan