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Fiction of Gay Interest
Plot / Content: Rating: G "a powerfully evocative and beautifully written book that takes one on a young man's journey to the bottom of the night" (from the jacket) Background / Biography: "Jeremy Reed is a well-known poet and biographer. He has published over thirty books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction including biographies of Lou Reed, Marc Almond and Anna Kavan. Among the prizes he has won are the National Poetry Competition, the Eric Gregory Award and the Somerset Maugham Award. He lives in London." (from the jacket) There is an incomplete entry on Reed on Wikipedia. Use the search box in the left column for other books by this author. Reviews: Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"Corner of West Jermyn Street. If I stop thinking, I can hear the house is empty; if I stop hearing, I can think myself into containment; an awareness of who I am, not where. Conversation abrogates this. It holds people on a kinetic arc and burns. If you look closely, if you hold your breath, you can see the words burn, you can hear them frazzle and dissipate into collective waste. Cities asphyxiate under this dead patina; words become noise, and noise not knowing where to go, or even why it so quickly dulls into inarticulacy. But if mouths became aware of loss, of the brevity of their pitch, they'd seal up. They'd contest with the punch drunk aphony of a damaged boxer facing up to the bonnet of a motorway truck. Sometimes I've envisaged the future like this. A heightened awareness of inarticulacy. A red bus reversing very slowly into a future devoid of obstacles. - The portent's there, but language can't meet it. Whenever we realise the inefficacy of speech, we lose grip, we try to revert back to primal thought, and end up screaming. It's as if language co-ordinated with a mental ratchet; one slip, and we spin off." opening paragraph Secondhand booksellers |
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