Gary In Your Pocket ? Stories and Notebooks of Gary Fisher: Stories and Notebooks of Gary Fisher

Gary In Your Pocket ? Stories and Notebooks of Gary Fisher

Stories and Notebooks of Gary Fisher
 
Series: Series Q;
Publisher: MD ? Duke University Press
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Number of Volumes: Trade Paperback
 
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ISBN13:9780822317999
ISBN10:08223179911
Binding:Paperback
No. of pages:364 pages
Size:250x150x15 mm
Weight:226 g
Language:English
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The incandescent African American writer Gary Fisher was completely unpublished when he died of AIDS in 1994 at the age of 32.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.


“Such acuity, such merciless wit, such love of language, such a passion for the process of writing: Fisher’s work makes me remember the first time I read Hart Crane, thinking then, as I do now, how much such a writer could have accomplished during a longer life, while marveling at what he did accomplish, writing driven by the energy of genius, honed by mortal urgency.”—Marilyn Hacker