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Author Wojnarowicz, David

Title Close to the knives : a memoir of disintegration / David Wojnarowicz
Published New York : Open Road Media, 2014

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Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; CONTENTS; SELF-PORTRAIT IN TWENTY-THREE ROUNDS; LOSING THE FORM IN DARKNESS; IN THE SHADOW OF THE AMERICAN DREAM Soon All This Will Be Picturesque Ruins; BEING QUEER IN AMERICA A Journal of Disintegration; LIVING CLOSE TO THE KNIVES; POSTCARDS FROM AMERICA X Rays from Hell; The Seven Deadly Sins Fact Sheet; Additional Statistics and Facts; DO NOT DOUBT THE DANGEROUSNESS OF THE 12-INCH-TALL POLITICIAN; AUTHOR'S NOTE; THE SUICIDE OF A GUY WHO ONCE BUILT AN ELABORATE SHRINE OVER A MOUSE HOLE; POSTSCRIPT; PERSONAL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; About the Author
Summary The savage, beautiful, and unforgettable memoirs of an extraordinary artist, activist, and iconoclast who lit up the New York art scene in the late twentieth century David Wojnarowicz & rsquo;s brief but eventful life was not easy. From a suburban adolescence marked by neglect, drugs, prostitution, and abuse to a squalid life on the streets of New York City, to fame & mdash;and infamy & mdash;as an activist and controversial visual artist whose work was lambasted in the halls of Congress, all before his early death from AIDS at age thirty-seven, Wojnarowicz seemed to be at war with a homophobic & ldquo;establishment & rdquo; and the world itself. Yet what emerged from the darkness was a truly extraordinary artist and human being & mdash;an angry young man of remarkable poetic sensibilities who was inordinately sympathetic to those who, like him, lived and struggled outside society & rsquo;s boundaries. Close to the Knives is his searing yet strangely beautiful account told in a collection of powerful essays. An author whom reviewers have compared to Kerouac and Genet, David Wojnarowicz mesmerizes, horrifies, and delights in equal measure with his unabashed honesty. At once savage and funny, poignant and sexy, compassionate and unforgiving, his words and stories cut like knives, leaving indelible marks on all who read them
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Subject Wojnarowicz, David -- Health
SUBJECT Wojnarowicz, David fast
Subject AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
Gay men -- United States -- Biography
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Artists -- United States -- 20th century -- Biography
Essays -- 20th century -- Biography
Gay authors -- United States -- 20th century -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
AIDS (Disease) -- Patients
Artists
Authors, American
Essays
Gay authors
Gay men
Health
United States
Genre/Form essays.
Essays
Biographies
Essays.
Biographies.
Essais.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1306784999
9781306784993
9781480489615
1480489611