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Fire in the belly : the life and times of David Wojnarowicz

Title
Fire in the belly : the life and times of David Wojnarowicz / Cynthia Carr.
Author
Carr, C.
Publication
New York : Bloomsbury, 2012.

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Description
613 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
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.
Alternative Title
Life and times of David Wojnarowicz
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- ".
ISBN
  • 9781596915336
  • 1596915331
LCCN
  • 2012000684
  • 40021155064
OCLC
  • ocn738346475
  • 738346475
  • SCSB-5647188
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries