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Bruce Boone Dismembered: Selected Poems, Stories, and Essays
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About Bruce Boone Dismembered: Selected
Product Description 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 Fontaine (with Robert Glück) “Stoned out of my gourd”: Review of Dennis Cooper’s The Tenderness of the Wolves Kathy Acker’s Great Expectations George Bataille: A Fave “New” Writer and His Vile Books Perception of a Body Among Writing’s Parts Bruce Boone Interviewed by Charles Bernstein Dark Queer Suite Stephen King Poem Buddies In Space John Wieners, American Poet Pulp Terror Lovecraft Letter to Stephen King, The Horror Writer The Last Soup: New Critical Perspectives The Truth About Ted An Excerpt from Carmen (A Visit with Roy) Three Letters from Carmen David’s Charm A Narrative Like A Punk Picture: Shocking Pinks, Lavenders, Magentas, Sickly Greens Hollywood Celluloid Nuke Madness Mirage―or Where’s the Party? For Jack Spicer―A Truth Element Spicer’s Writing in Context Robin Blaser’s New Syntax: Pointing Up Ahead, Behind, Wherever Robert Duncan and the Gay Community―A Reflection Review of Duncan’s Ground Work: Before the War Beat Poetry’s Populism The Queen Beats H.D.’s Writing: Herself A Ghost Beverly Dahlen Steve from He Sleeps with the Angels (Pink Sperm) Bruce Boone in Conversation with Eric Sneathen A Stele for Jamie Review “Bruce Boone has the perfect cadence of a real writer, part awe, part critique. He can see.”―Peter Gizzi “Boone is a master of this moment. Where everything that was under the surface―felt just below the surface of a story’s language―emerges suddenly.”―Thom Donovan, Poetry Foundation “With three small books―My Walk with Bob, The Truth About Ted, and Century of Clouds―Bruce Boone established himself as a pioneer of a gay-inflected New Narrative in the 1970s and early 1980s.”―Tyrone Williams, raintaxi “Boone’s easy-going, rare frankness, his thoughtfulness and awareness about the act of writing itself, his candidness and inclusivity about his aims and wishes, all make for a delicious and unabashedly charming writing style.”―Colin Herd, 3 AM Magazine Bruce Boone is almost always right about everything. Ideas are like glittering objects, held to the light and examined from every possible angle, but he doesn’t forget that discourse is also a form of seduction. Rob Halpern’s collection arrives like a gift. Bruce Boone is the most perfect writer.―Chris Kraus It seems like forever that Bruce Boone’s glorious work has been pressurizing people like myself who might have otherwise not sought infinitudes when writing prose and poetry. Finding him as a young wannabe Rimbaud-type boinked my ambitions and made me chase skill, and he still does. ―Dennis Cooper We writers in the Bay Area bicker often about the Bruce Boone that’s best, whether it’s Hippie Bruce, Existential Bruce, Marxist Bruce, Zen Bruce, Alien Bruce, Sub Bruce, Doomsday Bruce, or some Fugitive Bruce that’s escaped notice. The sum of these Bruces is, in more ways than one, the book you are now perusing. Not so much dismembered as remembered, bound together for the first time, each of these texts articulates discrete (and indiscreet!) themes that continue resonating through Bruce’s life and ours. On one page, I’ll find the ear turning toward a friend’s gossip. On another, I’ll find the han
