Possible articles and references to use for Max Valerio:
1. Book: "This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation" Gloria E. Anzaldúa and Ana Louise Keating
Summary: Anzaldua and Keating have painstakingly assembled a new collection of over eighty original writings that offers a bold new vision of women-of-color consciousness for the twenty-first century. Written by women and men--both "of color" and "white"--this bridge we call home will challenge readers to rethink existing categories and invent new individual and collective identities.Max Valerio is included in this book
2. Website: Trans Partners Project" http://www.elspethbrown.org/page/transpartners-project.
Summary: Here, Professor Brown uses the page as a site to gather resources that might be of interest to partners of trans guys, since there is currently so little information available for partners.
3. Article: "Becoming a Trans Poet" T. Peterson.
Summary: Here, he speaks about possible trans poetics or trans poetry aesthetic in the United States by examining poems by three of the earliest visible trans poets to publish books in this country: Samuel Ace, Max Wolf Valerio, and kari edwards. Close readings of their poems, supplemented with interviews in which the authors provide key contextual information, reveal an intriguing relationship between how these authors play with intelligibility through poetic form and how their work has mostly eluded literary history.