Unfurl
Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming
Duke University Press · Print & ebook · September 16, 2025
A queer disabled love song to trees and beavers, tremors and dreams, Unfurl explores the pulsing core and porous edges of survival, sorrow, and dreaming.
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- Who it’s for
- Poems and essays connect queer kinship, settler history, protest, and the more-than-human world.
- Themes
- Survival, sorrow, and dreaming, Queer kinship with the more-than-human, Settler history and family legacy
- Genres
- LGBTQ+ Poetry, Nature Poetry, Political & Protest Poetry
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A queer disabled love song to trees and beavers, tremors and dreams, Unfurl explores the pulsing core and porous edges of survival, sorrow, and dreaming. Blending poetry and creative nonfiction, emotion and activist thinking, Eli Clare invites us to unfurl ourselves into the lovely multitude of genders beyond the binary of woman and man, the fierceness of street protest, and the long slow time of granite. He sings to aquifers.
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Wrestles with the aftermath of child abuse and his family’s legacy as white settlers occupying Dakota homelands. He leans into history. Calls the names of the living and the dead. Connects his own tremoring body to a world full of tremors—earthquakes, jackhammers, quaking aspens. Unfurl reveals deep queer kinships between human and more-than-human, sentient and nonsentient. At every juncture, these poems and essays embrace porousness and the power of dreaming. Ultimately, Unfurl is an invitation to rebellion and joy.
Queer Kinships
Poems and essays connect queer kinship, settler history, protest, and the more-than-human world.
Come here for
- Poetry and creative nonfiction on gender beyond the binary
- Queer kinships with trees, beavers, and aquifers
Expect
- Reflections on child abuse and family settler legacy
- Attention to tremoring bodies, landscapes, and dreaming
Where it sits
| LGBTQ+ Poetry | 86% |
|---|---|
| Nature Poetry | 46% |
| Political & Protest Poetry | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Poetry Criticism
- Transgender Studies
- Activism & Social Justice
- Authors
- Eli Clare
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Published
- September 16, 2025
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Survival, sorrow, and dreaming · Queer kinship with the more-than-human · Settler history and family legacy
- Reading lane
- Poetry Criticism