Butch Geography

By Stacey Waite

Poetry. LGBT Studies. In her Los Angeles Review of Books essay Who Is Who: Pronouns, Gender, and Merging Selves, Dana Levin describes Stacey Waite's fusion of gender identities: Pseudonyms, heteronyms, personae, all the ventriloquizing literary arts; point of view and tonal shifts: these are tools for speakers and speaking. But the sentence too has a voice: 'i will not be the kind of boy who can not bear the memory of her body'... This is [Waite's] genius...to take innocuous syntactical phrasing and change the players mid-sentence--to get around English's pronominal either/or by creating a syntactical both/and....