Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz

Title: Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz Author: Wojnarowicz, David ISBN: 9781635900170 Publisher: Semiotext(e) Published: 2018 Binding: Book Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Memoir 1424957 Publisher Description: Audio journals that document Wojnarowicz's turbulent attempts to understand his anxieties and passions, and tracking his thoughts as they develop in real time.In these moments I hate language. I hate what words are like, I hate the idea of putting these preformed gestures on the tip of my tongue, or through my lips, or through the inside of my mouth, forming sounds to approximate something that's like a cyclone, or something that's like a flood, or something that's like a weather system that's out of control, that's dangerous, or alarming.... It just seems like sounds that have been uttered back and forth maybe now over centuries. And it always boils down to the same meaning within