📕  The Love of a Good Man: The Queer Epic Poem

A top-down view of a wooden tabletop that has: a typographical ruler, a pair of eyeglasses, a pink fountain pen, a pencil, and a softcover copy of a book that shows two men sharing a kiss. The cover of the book states: The Love of a Good Man; poems; This scene is superimposed by another, smaller book with the additional phrase The Queer Epic Poem

On the first anniversary of the release of The Love of a Good Man, Lucía coaxed her epic poem out of the final quarter of the longer collection, revised it, and re­is­sued it under her true name, in an exu­be­rant, two-colour pocket edition that ce­le­brates the trans­gen­der identity that haunts not only Lucía’s epic poem but also nearly three decades of her poetry.

This book contains an epic queer poem of 652 lines (give or take) that embodies an exuberant and unholy union between T. S. Eliot’s “Prufrock” and J. F. Shade’s “Pale Fire.” The epic poem examines the vagaries of homosocial affinity, homosexual desire, and transgender metamorphosis, their seeming impossibility, their historiography, and their erasure, prompted by the disaffection of a man.