Mr. &
Fitzpatrick, Jameson
These poems grapple with how romantic relationships, both gay and straight, are defined-and what we gain or lose from these definitions. The poems reflect on the experience not only of the poet, but also of wives throughout history, particularly as represented in classic literary texts, from Geoffrey Chaucer to Joan Didion.Fitzpatrick's "The Genius of Wives of Geniuses I Have Sat With, " for example, is inspired by a paragraph in Gertrude Stei...
