Powerless: Selected Poems 1973-1990 (High Risk Books) [Paperback]

Tim Dlugos (Author), David Trinidad (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1995 | Series: High Risk Books

A collection of poems reflecting the poet's fascination with the ways in which grace could be represented through artfulness.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Dlugos died of AIDS in 1990, leaving behind a body of what might be called second New York school verse. Like first New York school masters James Schuyler, John Ashbery, and Frank O'Hara, Dlugos took the everyday life of an urban aesthete--himself--as his subject and made it everyman's life. You don't have to be gay or share his pop-culture knowledge to sympathize with him, especially in this selection, which amounts to an autobiography. Dlugos first appears as a witty, sexy, poverty-stricken young literary intellectual; modulates into a more reflective, moderately wistful person as his youthful attractiveness fades; and becomes, despite this volume's title, which Dlugos chose, a powerful reporter-poet after he is diagnosed with AIDS and endures hospitalization. There is nothing "in-your-face," however, about the AIDS poems or any of the others. Rather, there is an appealing, intelligent, earnest personality in them, one strong enough, perhaps, to lend Powerless a life longer than those of most gay men's memoirs in prose. Ray Olson

Product Details

• Paperback: 150 pages
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail; 1st Edition(PB) edition (March 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1852424079
• ISBN-13: 978-1852424077
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,719,413 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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