Boone, Bruce: Dismembered: Selected Poems, Stories, and Essays

Dismembered: Selected Poems, Stories, and Essays by Bruce Boone (Nightboat Books, paperback) Publication Date: May 19, 2020 Publisher Marketing: Bruce Boone Dismembered collects nearly five decades of writing by Bruce Boone, a founder of New Narrative and critical figure at the crossroads of late twentieth-century avant-garde and social movement writing. At once sexy and political, gossipy and scholarly, this crucial volume includes poems, stories, essays, interviews, and reviews. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction by Rob Halpern Early Poems Karate Flower Writing Poems He's the Lover of My Soul A Natural Form of Love from Sleep Dodo the Cat Gives Himself to the Universe and Later Writes Poems Remarks on Narrative: The Example of Robert Glück's Poetry Gay Language as Political Praxis: The Poetry of Frank O'Hara Toward a Gay Theory for the '80s Writing Power Activity Writing's Current Impasse and the Possibilities for Renewal Language Writing: The Pluses and Minuses of the New Formalism La F