The incandescent African American writer Gary Fisher was completely unpublished when he died of AIDS in 1994 at the age of 32. This volume, which includes all of Fisher's stories and a generous selection from his journals, notebooks, and poems, will introduce readers to a tender, graphic, extravagant, and unswervingly incisive talent. In Fisher's writings the razor-sharp rage is equalled only by the enveloping sweetness; the raw eroticism by a dazzling writerly elegance. Evocations of a haunting and mobile childhood are mixed in Fisher's stories with an X-ray view of the racialized sexual vernaculars of gay San Francisco; while the journals braid together the narratives of sexual exploration and discovery, a joyous and deepening vocation as a writer, a growing intimacy with death, and an engagement with racial problematics that becomes ever more gravely and probingly imaginative. A uniquely intimate, unflinching testimony of the experience of a young, African American gay man in the AIDS emergency, Gary in Your Pocket includes an introduction by Don Belton that describes Fisher's achievement in the context of other work by Black gay men such as Marlon Riggs and Essex Hemphill, and a biographical afterword by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-13
9780822318040
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95219395
Product Key Features
Book Title
Gary in Your Pocket: Stories and Notebooks of Gary Fisher
Author
Gary Fisher
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
1996
Number of Pages
364 Pages
Dimensions
Item Weight
635g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Gary Fisher
Series Title
Series Q
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
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