Punk Rock Clit Lit: Reading Toward a Punk Poetics in "Bent on Writing: Contemporary Queer Tales."

This article discusses punk genealogy which serves a different function and has different goals than other poetic forms. The value of the work requires a new criterion which inflected poetic principles with standards articulated through the range of punk practices. The author is interested in poetry published by a dyke/queer generation for whom punk signifies one of many possible resistant responses to mainstream culture.