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Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

by David Wojnarowicz

Personal testimony across street life, art, and AIDS

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Personal testimony across street life, art, and AIDS

David Wojnarowicz’s memoir takes the form of creative essays, tracing experiences from a violent childhood in suburbia through homelessness in New York City and recognition as an artist. The subjects range across street life, drugs, art, nature, family, friendship, acceptance, AIDS, and politics. Together, these threads place personal experience alongside questions about social and political life in America, including what the publisher description calls a “Fear of Diversity.”

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in memoir shaped as a collection of creative essays.
  • Readers exploring LGBTQ+ history, AIDS, and political or social themes through personal testimony.
  • Readers interested in the intersections of art, street life, and family experience.

Themes

Memoir and personal testimonyLGBTQ+ studies and AIDSArt and street lifePolitics, diversity, and acceptance

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Book overview

In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection of creative essays -- a scathing, sexy, sublimely humorous and honest personal testimony to the "Fear of Diversity in America." From the author's violent childhood in suburbia to eventual homelessness on the streets and piers of New York City, to recognition as one of the most provocative artists of his generation -- Close to the Knives is his powerful and iconoclastic memoir. Street life, drugs, art and nature, family, AIDS, politics, friendship and acceptance: Wojnarowicz challenges us to examine our lives -- politically, socially, emotionally, and aesthetically.
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