Ronaldo Wilson

Virgil Kills (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Linked stories alighting from a U.S., Black and Filipino imaginary through a central character Virgil, and his accounts on race, sex, and desire. Virgil kills forms, manifesting a set of poetic investigationsrevealing black and brown life, memory, dreams, the sea, the sex-act, the line. Virgil travels in theaters and lots: Manhattan, Guam, Santa Cruz, Sacramento, Berlin, Iloilo, Provincetown, Millington, San Francisco, Long Island, Western Mass. Virgil moves against class, whiteness, on stages, at lecterns, in studios, and a luxury vehicle. Virgil records in the sensorium of cruising lovers, real love, family, T.V., charactersButch, Stream, Cleanhis precise unfurling.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nightboat Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781643621609
• Artikelnr.: 63752239

Autorenporträt

Ronaldo V. Wilson, PhD, is the author of: Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), winner of the Cave Canem Prize; Poems of the Black Object (Futurepoem, 2009), winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry. His latest books are Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose (Counterpath Press, 2014), finalist for a Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, Lucy 72 (1913 Press, 2018); and two forthcoming books Carmelina, Figures: An Artist's Book (Wendy's Subway, 2021), and a book of stories, Virgil Kills (Nightboat Books, 2022). Co-founder of the Black Took Collective, Wilson is, too, a mixed media artist, dancer and performer. He has performed in multiple venues, including the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, UC Riverside's Artsblock, Georgetown's Lannan Center, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Louisiana State University's Digital Media Center Theater, Southern Exposure Gallery, and Casa Victoria Ocampo in Buenos Aires. The recipient of fellowships from The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Cave Canem, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Ford Foundation, Kundiman, MacDowell, the National Research Council, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Center for Art and Thought (CA+T), and Yaddo, and is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, serving on the core faculty of the Creative Critical PhD Program, and principal faculty member of CRES (Critical Race and Ethnic Studies).

Inhaltsangabe

VIRGIL
Virgil Returns to Manhattan
The Dance
The Vent
The Conservation of Mass
Party, Party
The Wounded
Virgil Kills
The Operation
The After Party
Dream Vision in Blue and Black
Silent Incantations
CRITIQUE Virgil's Findings
The Pieces
The Platform
The Conversation
Dream Collaged with Reality
The Releases
Virgil is a Conceptual Artist
Into the Future
The Greatest
Lost and Found
Virgil Discovers Waste
Basement
Competition
VESTIBULE Station
Crypt
Alright
Haunt
Pod
Demand
Coast
SACRA Fantastic
Structure
Eyed, Virgil
Virgil's Going Home
LINEThe Fairmount
Among
Recall
Consequence
The Line
Staring
The Oasis
Virgil
Only
Dream