The poetry suites of the LGBTQ poets in this [book] are postconfessional precisely in these respects: they “confess” their makers’ gendered and sexual subjectivities, both textually, through their works’ representational content, and extra-textually, by the sheer performativity of their having been included in [the first Global GRACE LGBTQ National Writers Workshop]. They also all evince varying degrees of self-disclosure, which may be reckoned in terms of the polarity of timidity on one hand, and excess on the other. The... authors of [these] poetry suites, mostly all approached the subject of sexual and gendered self-disclosure indirectly—through the use of personae and stories that do not so much represent or describe as evoke their identities as queer subjects. In other words, while tapping into the formal and thematic affordances of confessional poetry, they nonetheless demur against its more readily recognizable features by thickening or attenuating their poems’ queer representational contents. In either case, the resultant articulation can be read postconfessionally as queer, despite or precisely because of the stylistic circumvention it performs. –from the Introduction by J. NEIL C. GARCIA

1. Philippine poetry (English), Modern ? 21st century. 2. Filipino poetry, Modern ? 21st century. 3. Poetry, Modern ? 21st century ? Philippines. 4. Lesbian?s writings. 5. Gay?s writing.