The God of San Francisco

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James J Siegel

Verlag:

Sibling Rivalry Press

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: YE79LG7

EAN: 9781943977819

Erhältlich:

Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Mi, 24.06.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 34.–

Beschreibung

In The God of San Francisco, James J. Siegel examines queer grief during the onset of the AIDS crisis through a lavender-and-leather pantheon: St. Christopher, Allah, and the God of San Francisco transubstantiate a sarcoma’s cicatrix into sequins, a viral dowry into a benevolent plume of dazzling feathers. From Laramie, Wyoming, to Toledo, Ohio, Siegel performs a magisterial frilling of historical attention, always emerging as "an extraordinary conflagration. A beautiful immolation. " At once an elegiac columbarium and search-and-rescue map for future bliss, The God of San Francisco trills from the Castro Funeral Home to North Beach and back, surmising death as something honeyed and lissome, "eulogies eulogized. " Desire masquerades as "a raven gliding / on the backdrop of midnight" and "Jesus in fishnets, / crossdressing his way through Nazareth," and desire cedes each poem’s boy, spectral or otherwise, a warm hand, green grass, "the sun’s rays on our skin. "

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

James J Siegel

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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