The Wild Hunt DivinationsTrevor KetnerLabel: Wesleyan University PressDescription: 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 browgowns web (herb hysteria)—let's thin flowerythen—gaudy bicep—insistent herd—leaf dyedto holy doorway—hunt syrups—doze—giventhat i swallow debt let me whorl—feed lard/ ale / ill breath—they get eye winks—husbandof thudhurt eyeray saltwar—sheets yelltan—nude hyphen—i knot woe; sinewy it seesfingernails (limp waters a hand sea) leather setsmeshes—hewed out virus—debauchery: try a mopor a match—i hot—i lucid—i wonderflush—stiffens:exoskeleton / cum—cuddly human mass—lasings a boyish brute in his coven—cut—yephood him—we want a wren duet / to be sheltera trans thud sob melt—oh welt / honeyed wife.
