Fly Over Poetics

“on a relief map”

—William Stafford 

“Sioux Haiku,” The 

Darkness Around Us Is Deep 

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Midwestern Gay Realism—

American Literary movement

Out from the late 20^th century—

Characterized by realistic depiction

Midwestern small-town and rural—

GLBT lifestyle, literature & marriage
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Taking up from the early stages—

Of developing American realism

And exploding the myth of str8t—

Midwestern idyllic existence

Focusing on the hardship and—

Discrimination against gays
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Foreshadowed by the stories—

And novels of early writers

Joseph Kirland’s Zury—

Dreiser, Masters and Anderson

The Story of a Country Town—

Spoon River Anthology
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Garland’s rambling epics—

Son of the Middle Border

The next stage in the—

Development of gay lit

American realism writing—

Towards a Fly-Over Poetics