Results for "Halpern, Rob"

Taking Walt Whitman's Civil War poems as an inspiration, Rob Halpern's Music for Porn moves across the landscape of battlefields and homoerotic affect in an encompassing engagement of desire and death. Halpern work, constructed of poetry and lyric prose, evinces a world in which the physical and lin... Read More about Music for Porn

This edition restores to print a central text of the New Narrative movement, founded in San Francisco by Boone and Robert Gluck in response to the stagnation of contemporary experimental poetry of the late 1970s. Wishing to bring the vigor and energy of the gay rights and feminist movements, Bruce B... Read More about Century of Clouds

Bruce Boone Dismembered collects nearly five decades of writing by Bruce Boone, a founder of New Narrative and critical figure at the crossroads of late twentieth-century avant-garde and social movement writing. At once sexy and political, gossipy and scholarly, this crucial volume includes poems, s... Read More about Bruce Boone Dismembered: Selected Poems, Stories, and Essays

Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. WEAK LINK is an interstitial work containing poems, poem-essays, prose sequences, letters, translations, exercises, and manifestos. Everything collected in it has been recovered from the faults and cracks within and between four books--RUMORED PLACE, DISASTER SUITES, MUSIC F... Read More about Weak Link

Winner of:Herald Scotland Books of the YearThe poems included in this volume are drawn from Rob Halpern’s four collections and two chapbooks—Common Place, Disaster Suites, Imaginary Politics, Music for Porn, Rumored Place, and Weak Link—one long writing project for which [ –... Read More about [––––––––]: Placeholder

Poetry. RUMORED PLACE, Rob Halpern's first book, combines a near confessional narrative of physical passion with the documentation of social fact. The book, he states, is situated between subjective desire and objective need. Any reader making way through RUMORED PLACE will feel intimations of trans... Read More about Rumored Place