The end of being known : a memoir / Michael Klein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klein, Michael, 1954 August 17-

Series:

Living out.

Living out

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay men--United States--Biography.

Gay men.

Klein, Michael, 1954 August 17-.

Klein, Michael.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (151 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison : The University of Wisconsin Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Written in poet Michael Klein's uniquely passionate, unapologetic but humble 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, yet finding meaning by piecing together personal examples of universal themes such as learning, through trial and error, about love and life.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Something Else Is the World

A Wedding in the Sky

The End of Being Known

A String of Variances

Once, My Brother

Fugue Life

Anonymous Life

A Resort for the Betrayed

A Dream: Who He Is Will Be Him.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-282-26924-0

9786612269240

0-299-18873-6

OCLC:

298789201