CRUEL/CRUEL Joan Brossa the classically beautiful into the

the classically beautiful into the wonderfully grotesque

Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed

Erica Baum

Willem Jan Otten

CRUEL/CRUEL Joan Brossa the classically beautiful into theDior J. Stephens CRUEL CRUEL is the manifestation of a Black, queer voice grappling with the intricacies of (un)belonging and identity. These poems use genres of queerness and race to reckon with the pervasive power of oppressive institutions, shaped by art and a soundtrack of Black musical traditions of resistance: from jazz to soul to experimental to hip hop. A hybrid visual and literary object, CRUEL CRUEL feels relentlessly present, and yet