Queer Formalism: The Return: The Return (Critic's Essay Series)

Review\n"A short, lively, thought-provoking search for a more encompassing queer art."—Kirkus Reviews\n"Queer Formalism: The Return is not about the destination but the incandescent journey. It is, in all of its indeterminacy, a manifesto."—BOMB Magazine\n"Featuring cultural figures from Lana Del Rey to Greer Lankton, [William J. Simmons] dexterously weds the intellectual and the instinctual in his new tome, Queer Formalism: The Return."—Cultured Magazine\n"Simmons' Queer Formalism: The Return is academic prose punctuated with a transparency not often found in scholarly works...Simmons' writing is a blend of the scholarly and poetic."—American Library Association Rainbow Roundtable\nQueer Formalism: The Return offers a new form of art queer writing. Artists addressed in Queer Formalism: The Return include: Sally Mann, David Lynch, Lars von Trier, Math Bass, Lorna Simpson, Laurie Simmons, Alex Prager, Jessica Lange, Lana Del Rey, and Louise Lawler, among others.\nFrom the Back Cover\nFeaturing cultural figures like Lana Del Rey, Sally Mann, David Lynch, Lorna Simpson, and Kirsten Dunst, Queer Formalism: The Return is a new kind of queer art writing that considers love and regret in their many forms.