Intro
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prelude. Beginning Again
Movement One. Desiring Connection
Intermezzo: Connecting through Pain, or the Case of Nayland Blake
Movement Two. Desiring Material
Intermezzo: Photographing a Bruise, or Catherine Opie's Rhetorical Landscapes
Movement Three. Speculative Desires
Intermezzo: Come Together, or the Arts of Queer Desire in a Time of Social Distancing
Movement Four. Desiring Time
Intermezzo: Burning Time, or Memory and the Queer Imagination
Coda. Desiring Legacy, Refusing Legacy
Appendix. The Burning Time Poems
Notes