Bøker av Kevin Killian

Kevin Killian, an injured veteran, romantic, and spiritual man, portrays his life experiences poetically through this heartfelt, thought-provoking anthology. This work will inspire you, keep you captivated, and shock you with its honesty and wittiness. At times you are enamored with the feelings of fear and human aspects of a soldier in battle. At other times you experience the juxtaposition of love, lust, and attachment from an open-hearted romantic. You will even experience a connection with the spiritual realm through an interesting view of God and the Devil. It is his hope to touch your heart, introduce a new life perspective, and be heard.

A memoir of gay life in 1970s Long Island by one of the leading proponents of the New Narrative movement.Fascination brings together an early memoir, Bedrooms Have Windows (1989) and a previously unpublished prose work, Bachelors Get Lonely, by the poet and novelist Kevin Killian, one of the founding members of the New Narrative movement. The two together depict the author's early years struggling to become a writer in the sexed-up, boozy, drug-ridden world of Long Island's North Shore in the 1970s. It concludes with Triangles in the Sand, a new, previously unpublished memoir of Killian's brief affair in the 1970s with the composer Arthur Russell. Fascination offers a moving and often funny view of the loneliness and desire that defined gay life of that era—a time in which Richard Nixon's resignation intersected with David Bowie's Diamond Dogs—from one of the leading voices in experimental gay writing of the past thirty years. "Move along the velvet rope,” Killian writes in Bedrooms Have Windows, "run your shaky fingers past the lacquered Keith Haring graffito: 'You did not live in our time! Be Sorry!'”