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Gluck Robert - About Ed - Paperback
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Description: A moving memoir about love AIDS grief and memory by one of the most adventurous writers to come out of San Francisco's Lgbtq+ scene. I was a writer but not the writer I needed to be. For that I had to become a different person Robert Gl ck widely acclaimed as a novelist and as a theorist of the new narrative recently told the Paris Review in which a section of About Ed has appeared. About Ed is Gl ck's portrait of the artist Ed Aulerich - Sugai his sometime lover met in the seventies in San Francisco when gay life emerged unabashedly from the closet. I wanted to find in Ed something to latch on to that was outside my egotism and fear my threadbare relation to the world a leap through Ed into lyric time Gl ck has said and in this book that is both a novel and my version of an AIDS memoir he wanted to capture the full range of his feelings for Ed: estranged from Ed bored by him moved by him. It is a book about the life they lived together art and writing and family and sex and death and composed over many decades it is also a book about how the past continues to change in memory and to charge the present. What is the right question to ask about a life? Gl ck asks describing About Ed as a collaborative project since Ed helped me write this book. Ed gave him notes to fashion a chapter about the day he was diagnosed so I could describe his experience from the inside and after Ed died Daniel Ed's partner lent me Ed's dream journals . He started writing them in 1970, the year that we met. We both used his journals not as puzzles to solve the truth of a self but as a commons producing images that we harvested for paintings and poems. And fifty years later there I was reading and copying out and running away from his dreams. Are they a condensed version of Ed? Shorthand? Distillation? Is he knowable and unknowable in the same degree sleeping or waking? About Ed is a challenging and beautiful book by one of America's finest and most adventurous writers.
Title: About Ed
Author(s): Gluck Robert
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781681377766
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 11/14/2023
Category: Biography: General
Description: A moving memoir about love AIDS grief and memory by one of the most adventurous writers to come out of San Francisco's Lgbtq+ scene. I was a writer but not the writer I needed to be. For that I had to become a different person Robert Gl ck widely acclaimed as a novelist and as a theorist of the new narrative recently told the Paris Review in which a section of About Ed has appeared. About Ed is Gl ck's portrait of the artist Ed Aulerich - Sugai his sometime lover met in the seventies in San Francisco when gay life emerged unabashedly from the closet. I wanted to find in Ed something to latch on to that was outside my egotism and fear my threadbare relation to the world a leap through Ed into lyric time Gl ck has said and in this book that is both a novel and my version of an AIDS memoir he wanted to capture the full range of his feelings for Ed: estranged from Ed bored by him moved by him. It is a book about the life they lived together art and writing and family and sex and death and composed over many decades it is also a book about how the past continues to change in memory and to charge the present. What is the right question to ask about a life? Gl ck asks describing About Ed as a collaborative project since Ed helped me write this book. Ed gave him notes to fashion a chapter about the day he was diagnosed so I could describe his experience from the inside and after Ed died Daniel Ed's partner lent me Ed's dream journals . He started writing them in 1970, the year that we met. We both used his journals not as puzzles to solve the truth of a self but as a commons producing images that we harvested for paintings and poems. And fifty years later there I was reading and copying out and running away from his dreams. Are they a condensed version of Ed? Shorthand? Distillation? Is he knowable and unknowable in the same degree sleeping or waking? About Ed is a challenging and beautiful book by one of America's finest and most adventurous writers.
Title: About Ed
Author(s): Gluck Robert
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781681377766
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 11/14/2023
Category: Biography: General
