Perverts

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By Kay Gabriel. Published by Nightboat Books. Softcover, 120 pages, Poetry, 2025. Against the backdrop of the anti-trans panic, Pervertsexplores desire as a political problem. It a sks two questions at the same time: whose desire is understood as dangerously excessive? And—a classic organizer’s question—how do we turn what we have into what we need to get what we want? Synthesizing her own dreams with those of her friends, Kay Gabriel’s Perverts is an exercise in turning private experience into shared consciousness and illicit desire into common cause. PRAISE Kay Gabriel has written an anti-epic for our current moment, bringing contemporary queer community into being with lyric verve amid and in resistance to our ongoing catastrophe. -John Keene If you didn’t make it to the party because you couldn’t quite follow the flyer or you needed to reorganize your bookshelf instead, fear not! Kay Gabriel’s beautiful new collection weaves us into the dreamworlds of that blessedly degenerate surround, “a world in which a pervert’s as good as a doctor.” In Gabriel’s hands, history is still up for grabs. -Morgan Bassichis Perverts is a gorgeous multicolored quilt of the subconscious of others, a pleasure, a riot . . . a gift. -Hannah Black Show more