
Title:
Fire in the belly : the life and times of David Wojnarowicz
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Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Publication Date:
2012
Publication Information:
New York ; London ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Bloomsbury, 2012.
Physical Description:
613 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9781596915336
9781608194193
Abstract:
A full-length account of the life and career of the artist and gay activist.
Contents:
Where something broke -- Dissolution -- The street -- The secret life -- At the shattered edge of the map -- The flaneur -- Go Fimbaud -- Nightclubbing -- The poverty of Peter Hujar -- A union of different drummers -- Rampages of raw energy -- Will they allow me on the moon? -- Pressure point -- A burning child -- Hello darkness, my old friend -- "Something turning emotional and wild" -- Some sort of grace -- Elegiac times -- Acceleration -- "Like a blood-filled egg" -- Witnesses -- With a target on his back -- "Desperate to bring a light" -- "Like a marble rolling down a hill" -- "Disappearing but not fast enough" -- Eplilogue: Throw my body on the steps of the White House.
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Language:
English