A King Dyed Pink is Doomed to Die

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dc.contributor.authorFuoco, Danteen
dc.contributor.committeechairTerazawa, Sophia Emien
dc.contributor.committeememberQueen, Khadijahen
dc.contributor.committeememberPatel, Soham Sureshen
dc.contributor.departmentEnglishen
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-10T08:00:23Zen
dc.date.available2024-05-10T08:00:23Zen
dc.date.issued2024-05-09en
dc.description.abstractA King Dyed Pink is Doomed to Die is a poetry collection concerned with cruelties waged against queer people—how even the most seemingly innocuous habits of cishet society proliferate a vast catalog of ongoing violence, from microaggressions to murder. Disrupting the accompanying complicity of silence (mine and others') involves not only invoking a propulsive "I" lyric (at once playful and elegiac, confessional and enraged, horny and ashamed) but also creating an unabashed mess of formal modes (theater, journalism, surrealism, visuality, 21st century technology) that, unlike heteronormativity, refuses tidy categorization. Death haunts these poems, whether it be a pigeon fatally dyed pink for a gender reveal party or a queer brutally murdered in a small Virginia town months before I moved there. As I metabolize the grief, rage, and despair resulting from past and current injustices, I turn to tender futurity: in this violent world, how can we—queers and accomplices—still cultivate pleasure and love?en
dc.description.abstractgeneralA King Dyed Pink is Doomed to Die is a poetry collection that reckons with violence waged against queer people. How do even the most seemingly innocuous hetero habits perpetuate cruelty, whether it be big or small? At once horny and rageful, silly and elegiac, these poems draw from theater, journalism, surrealism, visuality, modern technology, and other modes to disrupt a culture of binaries and tidy categorizations. The specter of death haunts this book as much the tragedy of two actual ones: a pigeon fatally dyed pink for a gender reveal party and a queer brutally murdered in Blacksburg, Virginia, months before I moved there. Even as I reckon with nasty realities, I invoke tenderness in my hopes for the future: in this violent world, how can we—queers and accomplices—cultivate pleasure and love?en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Fine Artsen
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.othervt_gsexam:40586en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10919/118943en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/en
dc.subjectqueeren
dc.subjectgayen
dc.subjectgender (reveal)en
dc.subjectbird/sen
dc.subjectpinken
dc.subjectcock/penis/dicken
dc.subjectbuttholeen
dc.subjectpoetryen
dc.subjecthybriden
dc.subjectcumen
dc.subjectviolenceen
dc.subjectbreeder/ingen
dc.titleA King Dyed Pink is Doomed to Dieen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineCreative Writingen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Fine Artsen

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