Residual Synonyms for the Name of God Yang Lian Written at a time when

Written at a time when LGBT+ people enjoyed increased visibility but faced continued discrimination and assault from conservative governments

with its three-poem introduction and book-length sonnet sequence

Portland Lights and O Poetry

through ghostly meetings in pubs and train stations

infuriates and entertains

Residual Synonyms for the Name of God Yang Lian Written at a time whenIn classical rabbinic literature the unpronounceable name of God produces and sacralizes a host of synonyms around what cant be said. Residual Synonyms for the Name of God performs the proliferation of language and culture in our late capitalist moment as a residual structure of a religious past. Lewis Freedman has heretically rewritten the work of his ancestors to create an annotated index of this inherited structure, in which our contemporary drive