Forbidden Flowers converses in a radical language of desire
through bold, provocative poems. Cornue and Morton’s poetry
ruminates on the human condition and its relationship to mortality,
love, and sexual prowess, from the perspective of powerful, queer
poets in a patriarchal world.
With references to
Charles Baudelaire, Frankenstein and Valley of the Dolls, Forbidden
Flowers is an active dreamscape of literary and cinematic
fantasies. Yet Cornue and Morton’s theater interacts with late
stage capitalism, punctuated with world weary humor and American
ennui. These poems are just a step away from death’s cliff, but
always willing to risk another turn at the roulette wheel.
