Publisher's Synopsis
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 then-gaudy bicep-insistent herd-leaf dyed to holy doorway-hunt syrups-doze-given that i swallow debt, let me whorl-feed lard / ale / ill breath-they get eye winks-husband, of thudhurt, eyeray, saltwar-sheets yell, tan-nude hyphen-i knot woe; sinewy, it sees fingernails (limp waters, a hand sea), leather sets, meshes-hewed out virus-debauchery: try a mop or a match-i hot-i lucid-i wonderflush-stiffens: exoskeleton / cum-cuddly human mass-la, sings a boyish brute in his coven-cut-yep, hood him-we want a wren duet / to be shelter, a trans thud, sob, melt-oh, welt / honeyed wife.
