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- Virgil Kills
- Title
- Virgil Kills
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- 9781643621180
- ISBN
- 9781643621180
- Release Date
- 04/08/2022
- Release Year
- 2022
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Book Title
- Virgil Kills
- Item Length
- 7.7in
- Publisher
- Nightboat Books
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- African American / General
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 11.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 232 Pages
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*Author cofounded the performance-based Black Took Collective: a group of Black post-theorists who perform and write in hybrid experimental forms, embracing radical poetics and cutting-edge critical theory about race, gender, and sexuality. *Book is of interest to scholars, readers, and students of twentieth-Century and Contemporary African American Poetry and Poetics, Queer Theory, Black Feminist Theory, Popular Culture/Race and Sexuality, Cultural Studies/Postcolonial and Transnational Perspectives, and Contemporary Black Visual Art and Culture. *Author was the winner of the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry, the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award and has received four Pushcart Prize nominations *Author has received fellowships and residencies from Cave Canem, Kundiman, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Vermont Studio Center, Yaddo, the Anderson Center for the Arts, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program *Author is currently a professor of Poetry, Fiction and Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz *Author hold's Ph.D. in English from CUNY Graduate Center and M.A. in Poetry from New York University
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Nightboat Books
ISBN-10
1643621181
ISBN-13
9781643621180
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19050413410
Product Key Features
Book Title
Virgil Kills
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
African American / General
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.7in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
11.3 Oz
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Ps3623.I58572
Reviews
"In Virgil Kills , Ronaldo Wilson leads us through a landscape of myths and dreams, desire and absurdity, with queer Black life always at its fierce center. This book shimmers with wit and brilliance."-- Danzy Senna "Ronaldo Wilson's kaleidoscopic and genre-defiant book of linked stories is an endless dream to behold. Like Severo Sarduy's Cobra, Wilson's Virgil has an attitude and wit that sting like a thousand and one scorpions. He is a world-class traveler, a floater, a circumstance-and-perspective fluid artist and intellectual who doesn't just break stereotypes--he slays them, so as 'to move forward, to offend in the face of casual and daily assault.' Mixing storytelling and criticism, he reminds us the myth of safe spaces and the history of, and ongoing, violations and violence on black and brown bodies, and that 'no one else's story matters as he is making his.' Edgy, brazen, and poetically-packed, Virgil Kills revamps our outlook on race, sex, and class, and offers us new and interesting ways of reading and writing fiction."-- R. Zamora Linmark "A novel, a dream book, a study in self-formation, a concert of surface, sex, and underswell... Ronaldo Wilson's ingenious Virgil Kills guides us, in the style of collage and choreography, through a netherworld where the 'the act of the body in the turns of its written emissions' can connect memory to the real and the fictive. Wilson's portrait of Virgil--mixed-media invention; composite persona--is in equal parts riotous and intimate. In scenes of sexual acts, social kinship, family attachments, and racial marking; in narratives of loss, defiance, escape, and exile, Wilson refutes 'sorrow as the route to freedom,' defining what it means instead to render 'temperature and thought'--that is, to amaze, abrogate, and amplify the attributes of embodied life."-- Roberto Tejada, "In Virgil Kills , Ronaldo Wilson leads us through a landscape of myths and dreams, desire and absurdity, with queer Black life always at its fierce center. This book shimmers with wit and brilliance."-- Danzy Senna "Ronaldo Wilson's kaleidoscopic and genre-defiant book of linked stories is an endless dream to behold. Like Severo Sarduy's Cobra, Wilson's Virgil has an attitude and wit that sting like a thousand and one scorpions. He is a world-class traveler, a floater, a circumstance-and-perspective fluid artist and intellectual who doesn't just break stereotypes--he slays them, so as 'to move forward, to offend in the face of casual and daily assault.' Mixing storytelling and criticism, he reminds us the myth of safe spaces and the history of, and ongoing, violations and violence on black and brown bodies, and that 'no one else's story matters as he is making his.' Edgy, brazen, and poetically-packed, Virgil Kills revamps our outlook on race, sex, and class, and offers us new and interesting ways of reading and writing fiction."-- R. Zamora Linmark, "In Virgil Kills , Ronaldo Wilson leads us through a landscape of myths and dreams, desire and absurdity, with queer Black life always at its fierce center. This book shimmers with wit and brilliance."-- Danzy Senna "Ronaldo Wilson's kaleidoscopic and genre-defiant book of linked stories is an endless dream to behold. Like Severo Sarduy's Cobra , Wilson's Virgil has an attitude and wit that sting like a thousand and one scorpions. He is a world-class traveler, a floater, a circumstance-and-perspective fluid artist and intellectual who doesn't just break stereotypes--he slays them, so as 'to move forward, to offend in the face of casual and daily assault.' Mixing storytelling and criticism, he reminds us the myth of safe spaces and the history of, and ongoing, violations and violence on black and brown bodies, and that 'no one else's story matters as he is making his.' Edgy, brazen, and poetically-packed, Virgil Kills revamps our outlook on race, sex, and class, and offers us new and interesting ways of reading and writing fiction."-- R. Zamora Linmark "A novel, a dream book, a study in self-formation, a concert of surface, sex, and underswell... Ronaldo Wilson's ingenious Virgil Kills guides us, in the style of collage and choreography, through a netherworld where the 'the act of the body in the turns of its written emissions' can connect memory to the real and the fictive. Wilson's portrait of Virgil--mixed-media invention; composite persona--is in equal parts riotous and intimate. In scenes of sexual acts, social kinship, family attachments, and racial marking; in narratives of loss, defiance, escape, and exile, Wilson refutes 'sorrow as the route to freedom,' defining what it means instead to render 'temperature and thought'--that is, to amaze, abrogate, and amplify the attributes of embodied life."-- Roberto Tejada, "Artist, academic, and poet Wilson explores an artist's identity and desire in this revelatory collection... Throughout, Wilson offers keen insights on tensions between corporeality and subjectivity, between the individual and socially constructed identity, and between dreams and reality. This adds up to a nuanced portrait of an artist mining his own life for material."-- Publishers Weekly "In Virgil Kills , Ronaldo Wilson leads us through a landscape of myths and dreams, desire and absurdity, with queer Black life always at its fierce center. This book shimmers with wit and brilliance."-- Danzy Senna "Ronaldo Wilson's kaleidoscopic and genre-defiant book of linked stories is an endless dream to behold. Like Severo Sarduy's Cobra , Wilson's Virgil has an attitude and wit that sting like a thousand and one scorpions. He is a world-class traveler, a floater, a circumstance-and-perspective fluid artist and intellectual who doesn't just break stereotypes--he slays them, so as 'to move forward, to offend in the face of casual and daily assault.' Mixing storytelling and criticism, he reminds us the myth of safe spaces and the history of, and ongoing, violations and violence on black and brown bodies, and that 'no one else's story matters as he is making his.' Edgy, brazen, and poetically-packed, Virgil Kills revamps our outlook on race, sex, and class, and offers us new and interesting ways of reading and writing fiction."-- R. Zamora Linmark "A novel, a dream book, a study in self-formation, a concert of surface, sex, and underswell... Ronaldo Wilson's ingenious Virgil Kills guides us, in the style of collage and choreography, through a netherworld where the 'the act of the body in the turns of its written emissions' can connect memory to the real and the fictive. Wilson's portrait of Virgil--mixed-media invention; composite persona--is in equal parts riotous and intimate. In scenes of sexual acts, social kinship, family attachments, and racial marking; in narratives of loss, defiance, escape, and exile, Wilson refutes 'sorrow as the route to freedom,' defining what it means instead to render 'temperature and thought'--that is, to amaze, abrogate, and amplify the attributes of embodied life."-- Roberto Tejada, "Artist, academic, and poet Wilson explores an artist's identity and desire in this revelatory collection... Throughout, Wilson offers keen insights on tensions between corporeality and subjectivity, between the individual and socially constructed identity, and between dreams and reality. This adds up to a nuanced portrait of an artist mining his own life for material."-- Publishers Weekly "As the stories progress, readers get an intimate view of Virgil's life and his impressions of sexual and governmental politics, race, identity, and how reality is perceived through the lens of societal constructs and expectations. Virgil's episodic adventures flow with uninhibited prose and a keen sense of self."-- Jim Piechota, Bay Area Reporter "In Virgil Kills , Ronaldo Wilson leads us through a landscape of myths and dreams, desire and absurdity, with queer Black life always at its fierce center. This book shimmers with wit and brilliance."-- Danzy Senna "Ronaldo Wilson's kaleidoscopic and genre-defiant book of linked stories is an endless dream to behold. Like Severo Sarduy's Cobra , Wilson's Virgil has an attitude and wit that sting like a thousand and one scorpions. He is a world-class traveler, a floater, a circumstance-and-perspective fluid artist and intellectual who doesn't just break stereotypes--he slays them, so as 'to move forward, to offend in the face of casual and daily assault.' Mixing storytelling and criticism, he reminds us the myth of safe spaces and the history of, and ongoing, violations and violence on black and brown bodies, and that 'no one else's story matters as he is making his.' Edgy, brazen, and poetically-packed, Virgil Kills revamps our outlook on race, sex, and class, and offers us new and interesting ways of reading and writing fiction."-- R. Zamora Linmark "A novel, a dream book, a study in self-formation, a concert of surface, sex, and underswell... Ronaldo Wilson's ingenious Virgil Kills guides us, in the style of collage and choreography, through a netherworld where the 'the act of the body in the turns of its written emissions' can connect memory to the real and the fictive. Wilson's portrait of Virgil--mixed-media invention; composite persona--is in equal parts riotous and intimate. In scenes of sexual acts, social kinship, family attachments, and racial marking; in narratives of loss, defiance, escape, and exile, Wilson refutes 'sorrow as the route to freedom,' defining what it means instead to render 'temperature and thought'--that is, to amaze, abrogate, and amplify the attributes of embodied life."-- Roberto Tejada, "Ronaldo V. Wilson explodes all over the mouth of whiteness in LUCY 72 like Cesaire stroking the Latin root 'niger,' courting its deranged figuration. With satire, grace, deep lyric reflection, and inside of the persistent strangulation of a rigorous couplet, the radiant poems in LUCY 72 are a working out and a working on this thing we call 'race.' In these poems, whiteness is abstracted away from color and made manifest in gesture, a relaxed state, a non-awareness, and certain preferences and unperceived privileges. Wilson strips down the symbolic figure, Lucy, exposing her blind and deaf obsession with her own whiteness--'One of my favorite words is alabaster'--and cranks our eyes toward these brutal cultural tropes: there is 'a black' and then there is the effortless abstraction of whiteness; blackness is opaque; whiteness is transparent; blackness, hard object, whiteness, effervescence. LUCY 72 is a haunting, gorgeously written, and absolutely necessary book for our times. When Lucy speaks, we should all listen closely." --Dawn Lundy Martin "It's our privilege that Wilson has done so in this haunting, surreal, and powerful book. Its beauty and anger are absolutely urgent." --Amaranth C. Borsuk "The secret of the body, for Ronaldo V. Wilson, is that there are no secrets. As such, every drop of sweat in his new book refracts the overlap of the abject and the fleeting, the familiar and the anonymity of the body in sex and disintegration...For Wilson, the work of the poem-and our expectant pleasure-is to disclose what the self might become if thought could account for what the body seems given to need. And if it's true that 'You've become the body you've become,' then that's only the beginning." --Joshua Marie Wilkinson "Ranging with promiscuous brilliance across diary, dissertation, lyric, chasm, cinema, and dream, Ronaldo V. Wilson tracks 'instances where my body touches language,' a protean adventure in which violation and sublimity, de Sade and Serena Williams shimmer as spectacle and twitch like muscle. Fearless son of that demented, adored father who is history, the farther traveler is the self-'a projected composition' constantly renewed." --Frances Richard, "Artist, academic, and poet Wilson explores an artist's identity and desire in this revelatory collection... Throughout, Wilson offers keen insights on tensions between corporeality and subjectivity, between the individual and socially constructed identity, and between dreams and reality. This adds up to a nuanced portrait of an artist mining his own life for material."-- Publishers Weekly "As the stories progress, readers get an intimate view of Virgil's life and his impressions of sexual and governmental politics, race, identity, and how reality is perceived through the lens of societal constructs and expectations. Virgil's episodic adventures flow with uninhibited prose and a keen sense of self."-- Jim Piechota, Bay Area Reporter "Moving from slumber to play to performance to life, Ronaldo V. Wilson blurs the realities that face this Black Filipino gay man, using them to establish a mirror. Mirrored in Virgil's life are the experiences known all too well to those artists and dreamers who are queer and Black."-- Greg Oletsa, ANMLY "In Virgil Kills , Ronaldo Wilson leads us through a landscape of myths and dreams, desire and absurdity, with queer Black life always at its fierce center. This book shimmers with wit and brilliance."-- Danzy Senna "Ronaldo Wilson's kaleidoscopic and genre-defiant book of linked stories is an endless dream to behold. Like Severo Sarduy's Cobra , Wilson's Virgil has an attitude and wit that sting like a thousand and one scorpions. He is a world-class traveler, a floater, a circumstance-and-perspective fluid artist and intellectual who doesn't just break stereotypes--he slays them, so as 'to move forward, to offend in the face of casual and daily assault.' Mixing storytelling and criticism, he reminds us the myth of safe spaces and the history of, and ongoing, violations and violence on black and brown bodies, and that 'no one else's story matters as he is making his.' Edgy, brazen, and poetically-packed, Virgil Kills revamps our outlook on race, sex, and class, and offers us new and interesting ways of reading and writing fiction."-- R. Zamora Linmark "A novel, a dream book, a study in self-formation, a concert of surface, sex, and underswell... Ronaldo Wilson's ingenious Virgil Kills guides us, in the style of collage and choreography, through a netherworld where the 'the act of the body in the turns of its written emissions' can connect memory to the real and the fictive. Wilson's portrait of Virgil--mixed-media invention; composite persona--is in equal parts riotous and intimate. In scenes of sexual acts, social kinship, family attachments, and racial marking; in narratives of loss, defiance, escape, and exile, Wilson refutes 'sorrow as the route to freedom,' defining what it means instead to render 'temperature and thought'--that is, to amaze, abrogate, and amplify the attributes of embodied life."-- Roberto Tejada, "In Virgil Kills , Ronaldo Wilson leads us through a landscape of myths and dreams, desire and absurdity, with queer Black life always at its fierce center. This book shimmers with wit and brilliance."-- Danzy Senna
Table of Content
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 CRITIQUEVirgil''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 VESTIBULEStation Crypt Alright
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Dewey Decimal
813.6
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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