Memories That Smell Like Gasoline

Memories That Smell Like Gasoline - Paperback

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Memories That Smell Like Gasoline - Paperback

Memories That Smell Like Gasoline - Paperback

by David Wojnarowicz
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"Wojnarowicz is a spokesman for the unspeakable." --New York Magazine

David Wojnarowicz, one of the most provocative artists of his generation, explores memory, violence, and the erotism of public space--all under the specter of AIDS.

Here are David Wojnarowicz's most intimate stories and sketches, from the full spectrum of his life as an artist and AIDS activist. Four sections--"Into the Drift and Sway," "Doing Time in a Disposable Body," "Spiral," and "Memories that Smell like Gasoline"--are made of images and indictments of a precocious adolescence, and his later adventures in the streets of New York. Combining text and image, tenderness and rage, Wojnarowicz's Memories that Smell like Gasoline is a disavowal of the world that wanted him dead, and a radical insistence on life.

The new and revised edition features a foreword by Ocean Vuong and a note from the editor, Amy Scholder.

ISBN9781643622712
Author David Wojnarowicz
PublisherNightboat Books
GenreLiterature and Arts
FormatPaperback
PublishedJuly 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages96
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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