You can’t wait to turn the page or watch the next episode. In the tight form of the sonnet – in just 14 lines – Pisarra presents a narrative with as many twists and turns (infused with irony, snark and tearing-up moments) as a compelling novel or must-binge-watch TV show. After the sonnet about the 50 th boyfriend, the reader might well wonder: are we there yet?īut, there are no worries with Pisarra. If anyone else tried this, it would likely be a snooze. He uses the periodic table of elements to track his erotic encounters with more than 118 men. Pisarra’s sonnets illuminate how his one-night stands are immersed in chemistry (in all senses of the word). Through his poetic alchemy, Pisarra makes you see why combining queer eros with periodic elements isn’t an obscure mystery.Ĭhemistry as defined by the “Oxford English Dictionary,” is “the complex emotional or psychological interaction between two people,” Angie Morrill notes in the introduction to “Periodic Boyfriends.”Ĭhemistry contains the elements – from silver to tin to gold – that make up the world. The sonnets riff off Pisarra’s one-night stands, cybersex encounters and memories of queer men who’ve died. Pisarra writes sonnets that Shakespeare, who some scholars think was queer, would, I’d wager, have enjoyed reading with his BFFs.Įach of the witty, sometimes poignant, nearly always captivating, sonnets in “Periodic Boyfriends” is titled with the name for an element in the periodic table (such as the poems titled “Hydrogen,” “Boron,” “Lithium” and “Palladium”). “Periodic Boyfriends” is a collection of sonnets inspired by queer love and the periodic table of elements.
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