Special Subcommittee [Paperback]

On one level,Special Subcommitteeis an experimental family history of Samuel Solomon's communist, labor-organizer grandparents, told through the sterile language of redacted FBI files and transcripts of congressional hearings. Against these subcommittees of repression, he then invents an ardent and committed lyric of queer communist relation revolving around his chosen family: his friends, lovers, and political comrades. The combination is wild, radical, and subversive.Samuel Solomonis the author ofLife of Rileyand the co-translator ofThe Acrobat: Selected Poems of Celia Dropkin. He teaches at the University of Sussex, where he is Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence.SONNET
FEELINGS
CHAPARRAL SONG
MILDFIRE
1980S!
SPRING OPEN US
SHE DRIVES THE BUICK
UNFRUITABLE
IT HAPPENED
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LIFE OF RILEY
PEBBLE MINE
A QUALITY OF NUMBERS
POSTSCRIPT
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

His chapbook,Life of Riley, was highly-regarded by both UK and US poets. This debut has been long-awaited by watchers of the UK poetry scene

Will appeal to people interested in US labor history and communist history.

Will appeal to those interested in left-wing queer poetry.

Will appeal to those interested in documentary poetry.

Will appeal to those interested in new approaches to family history.

Will appeal to those interested in the possibilities for lyric today.

Will appeal to those interested in hybrid, mixed-genre writing

Born in New York City, Samuel Solomon is author ofLife of Riley(Bad Press 2012) and translator, with Jennifer Kronovet and Faith Jones, ofThe Acrobat: Selected Poems of Celia Dropkin(Tebot Bach, 2014). He teaches in the Department of English at the University of Sussex where he is Co-Director of the Centre for the StlSR