
Staff Pick
Transposium
by Dani Yourukova
AUCK OUT OF STOCK
WGTN IN STOCK
Pages:
108
Published:
Oct 2023
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Auckland University Press
ISBN:
9781776711000
Part philosophy thesis and part psychosexual Ancient Greek fever dream, Dani Yourukova's Transposium adapts Plato into poetry, featuring queer longing, a choose-your-own-adventure apocalypse, Les Miserables slash fiction and love poems about dead philosophers. Shameless, witty and hot with curiosity, these poems are preoccupied with the refashioning of gender, logic, language and form. Through relentless cross-examination of Socrates and associates,Yourukova combines reckless affection for the past, and a shimmering spectrum of anxieties around an uncertain future. Alternately intellectual and irreverent, this collection is a playful take on the concept of the dialectic, weaving across text and time and the aching yawn of distance between us.
$30.00
THIS WILL BE ONE OF THE BEST POETRY COLLECTIONS YOU WILL EVER READ. Part philosophy thesis, part pscho-sexual Ancient Greek fever dream, this is laugh-out-loud, angsty, longing-filled, joyful, brilliantly queer collection explores the 'ancient gays', philosophy, gender, romance and love. I adore this and my review can't do it justice.



