Close to the knives : a memoir of disintegration
- Title
- Close to the knives : a memoir of disintegration / David Wojnarowicz.
- Published by
- New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1991.
- ©1991
- Author
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- Description
- 276 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "...From the author's violent childhood in suburbia to eventual homelessness on the streets and piers of New York City, to recognition as one of the most provocative artists of his generation -- Close to the Knives is [the author's] powerful and iconoclastic memoir. Street life, drugs, art and nature, family, AIDS, politics, friendship and acceptance: Wojnarowicz challenges us to examine our lives -- politically, socially, emotionally, and aesthetically."-- Publisher description.
- Subject
- Wojnarowicz, David > Health
- Wojnarowicz, David
- 1900-1999
- AIDS (Disease) > Patients > United States > Biography
- Gay men > United States > Biography
- Authors, American > 20th century > Biography
- Artists > United States > 20th century > Biography
- Essays > 20th century > Biography
- Gay authors > United States > 20th century > Biography
- Artists' books > United States
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > biography
- Sidéens > États-Unis > Biographies
- Homosexuels masculins > États-Unis > Biographies
- Homosexualité > Récits personnels
- Sidéens > Récits personnels
- Livres d'artistes > États-Unis
- Écrivains américains > 20e siècle > Biographies
- Artistes > États-Unis > 20e siècle > Biographies
- Essais (Genre littéraire) > 20e siècle > Biographies
- Écrivains homosexuels > États-Unis > 20e siècle > Biographies
- Artists' books
- AIDS (Disease) > Patients
- Artists
- Authors, American
- Essays
- Gay authors
- Gay men
- Health
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Autobiografie
- Au€enseiter
- HIV/AIDS
- Sexual minorities
- Men
- LGBTQ+ people
- United States
- USA
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biography.
- Biographies.
- Contents
- Self-portrait in twenty-three rounds -- Losing the form in darkness -- In the shadow of the American Dream : soon all this will be picturesque ruins -- Being Queer in America : a journal of disintegration -- Living close to the knives -- Postcards from America : X-rays from hell ; The seven deadly sins fact sheet ; Additional statistics and facts -- Do not doubt the dangerousness of the 12-inch-tall politician -- The suicide of a guy who once built an elaborate shrine over a mouse hole.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Note
- "A Vintage original"--Title page verso.