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Title High risk 2 : writings on sex, death, and subversion / edited by Amy Scholder and Ira Silverberg.

Imprint London ; New York : Serpent's Tail/High Risk Books, 1994.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  810.803538 H537  v.2    ---  Available
Description 369 p. ; 20 cm.
Note "High Risk 2 offers stories, essays and poems more remarkable for sadness than for anger. These are mostly about death, real or metaphorical. In Rebecca Brown's lovely 'Grief,' a woman's death is fantasized as an airplane journey by friends, who dress to meet her at the airport day after day. In 'Best-Seller,' Michael Blumlein expertly documents the spiritual morbidity of a writer forced to sell his body parts just to survive. The chant-like poems of Diamanda Galas propose 'prayer . . . not for miracles, and not for heaven. Just for silence and for mercy until the end.' The uneven literary caliber of these selections, ranging from Patrick McGrath's splendid meditation to Stephen Beachy's hyperactive indulgence, is a disappointment, but the collective force lends credence to even the rawest voices. Of special merit are Darryl Pinckney's 'Throwing Shade,' whose street-talking narrator offers delicate wisdom, and Craig G. Harris's wrenching essay about his own decline from AIDS. Some of these pieces will break readers' hearts, others will patch them with real artistry."--Amazon.com.
Subject American literature -- 20th century.
Erotic literature, American.
Added Author Silverberg, Ira.
Scholder, Amy.
ISBN 1852423668
9781852423667

 
    
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