{"product_id":"retrovirology-poems-paperback","title":"Retrovirology: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Bonanni\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2025 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eretrovirology \u003c\/i\u003eoscillates between Queer childhood erasure and the AIDS epidemic, pulling from the ACT UP oral history project, informal interviews with survivors, and AIDS historians Sarah Schulman and David France. While some poems elegize key figures of AIDS history such as Larry Kramer and Gaëton Dugas, others operate as ekphrasis against the creative artwork of ACT UP's direct actions. Combining reinterpretations of formal elements such as the concrete poem, the abecedarian, and the villanelle, post-confessional poems converse with a docupoetic history through an arc that examines what it meant to grow up Queer as a child in rural Pennsylvania in the late '80s and early '90s, surrounded by messages of gay disease and the violence of its silences. \u003ci\u003eretrovirology\u003c\/i\u003e, then, resurrects Queer elders to allow memory to \"rise from its subjugated state\" (Jung) and to carry with it, into our futures, all of its wisdom and fire.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Bonanni \u003c\/b\u003efounded and edits the \u003ci\u003eCape Cod Review\u003c\/i\u003e. His poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eNorth American Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFoglifter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlack Warrior Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWashington Square Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFlorida Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/i\u003e, and his literary criticism has been featured in \u003ci\u003eDIAGRAM\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDenver Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches on Cape Cod.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.35 x 8.44 x 7.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56434828017969,"sku":"9780822968351","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/9532\/7537\/files\/su8fDgzgse9780822968351.webp?v=1790160688","url":"https:\/\/mitchellofficial.com\/products\/retrovirology-poems-paperback","provider":"MITCHELL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}