false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171150804m/89213.jpg 89213 3 Wojnarowicz is a controversial contemporary artist who drew national attention when the NEA withdrew a grant for the artist's gallery, Artist's Space, in response to the lacerating essay he wrote about AIDS to accompany the show. He later sued the Reverend Donald Wildmon for copyright infringement and misrepresentation for using excerpts from his works when testifying before Congress. The book deals with subjects that arouse varied responses but rarely indifference. This very angry young man, the product of a lifetime of abuse inflicted by himself as well as others, is a traveler on the road to emotional and physical disintegration. Neither an autobiography nor essays, the work consists of segments, of incidents and images, some outrageous, some moving. It is an attempt to afford the reader a glimpse into outsider society but does so in a way that seems to aim more at alienation than amity. There is great pain here and a plea for compassion, but the rage and fear of which he accuses the establishment seems as much an echo of his own voice as it is of outside reality. - Paula Frosch, Metropolitan Museum of Art Lib., New York Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. 86102 7 5 1991 Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration total:282|5:162|4:89|3:26|2:5|1:0| 282 1254 438 38 4 2 false false Thu Jan 03 19:13:18 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 09 16:13:19 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Aug 17 19:35:44 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 17 19:35:44 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 07 10:11:21 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 04 20:15:02 -0700 2008 Wojnarowicz's story is a story we all need to read. A friend of mine put it succinctly "his book is about love and rage". The way he writes is really visceral, taking you back in time to cruising at the New York piers in the 70's and early 80's and what it was like to lose those...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 09:10:32 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 21:44:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Sep 02 15:42:17 -0700 2009 Sat Dec 08 23:01:22 -0800 2007 Wed Sep 02 15:42:17 -0700 2009 Stunning, soul breaking and thought reforming writing, that I decided to read again, because I wanted to get authentic views on gay prostitution as survival in earlier decades for my punk novel. In a way I felt a profound disconnection from the material whe...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Sat Jun 27 13:53:49 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 14:32:14 -0700 2009 3 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Mon Dec 22 11:38:51 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 11:38:51 -0800 2008 ]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 27 09:35:20 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 05:39:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Fri Jan 25 15:03:37 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 15:03:37 -0800 2008
i spent a lot of time while reading it grieving david wojnarowicz' death...he writes like thoughts rapid clip but also words feel exquisite. it's like reading the view out of a moving car, like not how language is told to be used, but how it is, someth...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jul 11 21:06:36 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 21:08:37 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Oct 21 16:59:35 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 08 09:05:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 07 12:39:50 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 12:43:16 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 00:19:27 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 13:40:25 -0700 2009
AIDS as politics: an issue which helps to define the ideologies still with us today, the political machine which specifically suppresses significant issues in an effort to propel itself and its limited perspectives indefin...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1991 Thu Dec 27 20:19:21 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 27 20:32:57 -0800 2007
Relieved, even...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jul 27 19:32:24 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 05 18:45:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Dec 25 06:16:09 -0800 2007 Mon Feb 18 08:36:03 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996 Thu Oct 04 20:28:02 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 04 20:32:08 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Thu Mar 08 19:29:04 -0800 2007 Fri Mar 09 06:46:03 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Wed Jun 20 14:43:44 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 20 14:45:55 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Fri Dec 14 11:38:41 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 14 12:20:59 -0800 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=89213