{"product_id":"the-dinner-party-isbn-9781644215487","title":"The Dinner Party","description":"\u003cb\u003eCat Fitzpatrick delights in this post-pandemic follow-up to her debut verse novel of present-day manners, \u003ci\u003eThe Call-Out\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cbr\u003ea trans community celebration of mores, gender theory, and rhyme.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Dinner Party \u003c\/i\u003ereturns to the chaotic and adorable world of trans femme. The title piece begins… “The ‘Rona being now at last abated,” and continues with cameo portraits of the seven guests she plans to invite, including:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTogether, as we had in days gone by.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI asked Rakshasi, clad in black, so thin,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSo eager for some trouble to get in,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf any kind, and Sophie, blunt and dry,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWho often ended up the night so pissed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe’d trip and fall when climbing up the stairs,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd learned Bridget, sweet, beset by cares,            \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWho always talks about her therapist ––\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy besties. Plus I asked along a pair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOf mascs: Adonis, such a charming youth,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMore interested in beauty than in truth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWho drives a motorbike and braids his hair,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd Dominic, less young, but full of poise,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA trickster with a most provoking grin,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMore pleased with contradiction than with sin,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd even more with argument than boys,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoining  “The Dinner Party” are several other themed pieces, including “A Stay in the Country,” a short arcadian pageant, “Baby Book,” about the trials and tribulations of making babies as queer and transsexual couples, “Letter to Crabstick,” an epistolatory friendship, and “Uxorious Sonnets,” a collection of eight love poems, among them Sonnet 6 in which she writes:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eit’s almost terrifying when we fuck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ehow there I am, how in that jostle and shove\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eof flesh, my thoughts, that mostly run amuck,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003econtract to simply shouting \u003c\/i\u003eLove You Love.\"Whether she’s narrating an Ovidian verse drama, composing a sonnet sequence, or retelling Plato’s Symposium in perfectly iambic envelope quatrains, Cat Fitzpatrick is a total genius at making old modes accommodate new realities. I’m so moved by this virtuosic collection of long poems about queer family-making, freaky friendship, erotic love, and gender transition. \u003ci\u003eThe Dinner Party\u003c\/i\u003e is brilliant, hot, uproarious, and gay as hell: at once a high-wire camp performance and an aching tribute to the sounds and shapes of our language.\"—\u003cb\u003eMaggie Millner, author of \u003ci\u003eCouplets: A Love Story\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Cat Fitzpatrick’s \u003ci\u003eThe Dinner Party \u003c\/i\u003ecelebrates love, community, domesticity and their manifold humiliations; grieves the loss inherent in love, monitors friend’s clashes with the rapt gaze of a connoisseur, airs intimacy’s fecal folds, and comes down soundly each time on the side of more: “we must refuse\/to not be charmed.” How fathom the vasts of the poet’s perversity? She rhymes because she likes it. I like it too.\" \u003cb\u003e—Sophia Dahlin, author of \u003ci\u003eGlove Money\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCAT FITZPATRICK's\u003c\/b\u003e debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Call-Out \u003c\/i\u003e(Seven Stories Press, 2022), was awarded the 2023 Lambda Award for Transgender Fiction. She is the author of the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eGlamour­puss\u003c\/i\u003e (Topside Press, 2016), and the co-editor of the anthology \u003ci\u003eMeanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction \u0026amp; Fantasy from Transgender Writers\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the ALA Stonewall Award for Literature. Fitzpatrick is the first trans woman Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies program at Rutgers University–Newark, and she also serves as the Editrix at LittlePuss Press. \u003ci\u003eThe Dinner Party\u003c\/i\u003e (Seven Stories Press, 2026) is her second novel in verse.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233654485221,"sku":"NP9781644215487","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781644215487.jpg?v=1767739023","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-dinner-party-isbn-9781644215487","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}