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Fire in the belly : the life and times of David Wojnarowicz / Cynthia Carr.
Fine Arts Library N6537.W63 C37 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carr, Cynthia, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wojnarowicz, David.
- Artists--United States--Biography.
- Artists.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 613 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First U.S. edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury, 2012.
- Summary:
- A full-length account of the life and career of the artist and gay activist centers on the infamous 2010 censoring of "A Fire in My Belly," exploring Wojnarowicz's brutal childhood, relationship with his contemporaries, and early death from AIDS in 1992.
- 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
- A blood-filled egg
- Witnesses
- Embattled
- Desperate to bring a light
- "Like a marble rolling down a hill
- "
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 599-600) and index.
- Lambda Literary Awards - Gay Memoir/Biography, Winner, 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781596915336
- 1596915331
- 9781608194193
- 1608194191
- OCLC:
- 738346475
- Publisher Number:
- 7221017
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