1 option
The end of being known : a memoir / Michael Klein.
Van Pelt Library HQ75.8.K584 A3 2003
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Klein, Michael, 1954 August 17-
- Series:
- Living out
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Klein, Michael, 1954 August 17-.
- Klein, Michael.
- Gay men--United States--Biography.
- Gay men.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 135 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Written in poet Michael Klein's uniquely passionate voice, The End of Being Known explores the lines that define, yet also blur, the boundaries of sex, friendship, and compatibility. This collection of autobiographical essays probes the manifestations of sexual desire in its mystical variety: experiencing incest, falling in love, being a twin, and inhabiting the world of anonymous sex -- in practice, and, in an essay about the Body Electric movement, as something recuperative and renewing.
- Each essay unfurls in a hybrid of poetry, narrative, and fragmentary literary devices. Here is an uncompromising gaze upon the quandaries of those whose sexual, emotional, and relational worlds collide, yielding no answer to the riddle of desire.
- Contents:
- Something Else Is the World 1
- A Wedding in the Sky 25
- The End of Being Known 45
- A String of Variances 67
- Once, My Brother 83
- Fugue Life 89
- Anonymous Life 99
- A Resort for the Betrayed 119
- A Dream: Who He Is Will Be Him 127.
- ISBN:
- 0299188701
- OCLC:
- 51848377
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.