This one's a bit all over the place because I went down a rabbit hole about what a potential freak (complimentary) this man might have been, then put a lid on it to try to appear reasonable. I think we do too often dismiss older work as "well, that's how everybody was back then" & it's not true.
Joe Koch
This Pride Month, Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein has invited guests to review classic works of gender transition and identity. This week, please enjoy:
In Defense Of Transgender Mermaids: George Sterling’s Strange Waters (1926) by Joe Koch
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Strange Waters is a narrative poem by George Sterling released in a small chapbook edition in 1926, the same year Sterling died by suicide. As his last published poem, the language is more economic…
