The Wild Hunt Divinations: A Grimoire

Shakespeare's 154 sonnets anagrammed into wildly new poems about queer desire and kink.   The Wild Hunt Divinations: A Grimoire is a stunning second collection from National Poetry Series winner, Trevor Ketner. Comprised of 154 sonnets, each anagrammed line-by-line from Shakespeare's sonnets, the book refracts these lines through the thematic lens of transness, queer desire, kink, and British paganism. The sonnets come together to form a grimoire that casts a trancelike and intense spell on the reader. Centered on love and desire in the English canon, this collection speaks to the ever-emerging and beautiful manifestations of queer love and desire. Relentless, excessive, wild, and tender, The Wild Hunt Divinations: A Grimoire sets itself to chanting from beginning to end.   When forty winters shall beseige thy brow, gowns web (herb hysteria)let's thin flowery thengaudy bicepinsistent herdleaf dyed to holy doorwayhunt syrupsdozegiven that i swallow debt, let me whorlfeed lard / ale / ill breaththey get eye winkshusband, of thudhurt, eyeray, saltwarsheets yell, tannude hypheni knot woe; sinewy, it sees fingernails (limp waters, a hand sea), leather sets, mesheshewed out virusdebauchery: try a mop or a matchi hoti lucidi wonderflushstiffens: exoskeleton / cumcuddly human massla, sings a boyish brute in his covencutyep, hood himwe want a wren duet / to be shelter, a trans thud, sob, meltoh, welt / honeyed wife. See more