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The end of being known : a memoir / Michael Klein

Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, c2003

Online-Ressource (xii, 135 p)

Englisch

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Something Else Is the World""; ""A Wedding in the Sky""; ""The End of Being Known""; ""A String of Variances""; ""Once, My Brother""; ""Fugue Life""; ""Anonymous Life""; ""A Resort for the Betrayed""; ""A Dream: Who He Is Will Be Him""

Description based upon print version of record

Print version: End of being known

0-299-18873-6 (electronic bk.); 978-0-299-18873-3 ( : electronic bk.)

0-299-18870-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-299-18870-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

Online-Ausg.

HQ75.8.K584

305.38/9664/092     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Gay men -- United States -- Biography ; Klein, Michael -- 1954 August 17-

Gay men ; United States ; Biography ; Klein, Michael ; 1954 Aug. 17- ; Electronic books

Written in poet Michael Klein's uniquely passionate, unapologetic but humble voice, The End of Being Known explores the lines that define, yet also blur, the boundaries of sex, friendship, and compatibility. This collection of autobiographical essays probes the manifestations of sexual desire in its mystical variety: experiencing incest, falling in love, being a twin, and inhabiting the world of anonymous sex--in practice, and, in an essay about the Body Electric movement, as something recuperative and renewing. Each essay unfurls in a hybrid of poetry, narrative, and fragmentary literary devices. Here is an uncompromising gaze upon the quandaries of those whose sexual, emotional, and relational worlds collide, yielding no answer to the riddle of desire, yet finding meaning by piecing together personal examples of universal themes such as learning, through trial and error, about love and life.

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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Something Else Is the World -- A Wedding in the Sky -- The End of Being Known -- A String of Variances -- Once, My Brother -- Fugue Life -- Anonymous Life -- A Resort for the Betrayed -- A Dream: Who He Is Will Be Him.