Rhapsodies of a repeat offender : poems / Wayne Koestenbaum.

Title
  1. Rhapsodies of a repeat offender : poems / Wayne Koestenbaum.
Published by
  1. New York : Persea, c1994.
Author
  1. Koestenbaum, Wayne

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  1. Bemis/Flaherty Collection of Gay Poetry WU
Description
  1. 119 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. The collection's cornerstones are two rhapsodies - long poems which combine the richness of a novel, the intimacy of a lyric, and the immediacy of a performance. At the climax of the first, the poet meets his double, a dying boy whose shameful moniker is "Baldie." As if in response to this explosive confrontation, the poet dares to write a second, wilder "Rhapsody"--A confessional, improvisatory fantasia, virtually a book in itself, where abjection blossoms into formally-innovative extravagance.
  2. Three sequences complete the collection: "Piano Life," a series of haunted meditations on music and mortality; "Erotic Collectibles," a disarmingly unsentimental account of sexual awakening; and "Star Vehicles," in which the poet sees his perplexities reflected in Bette Davis, Sophia Loren, Ida Lupino, and other leading ladies.
Subject
  1. Poetry
Genre/Form
  1. Gay poetry
  2. Poetry
Contents
  1. Rhapsody -- Piano Life -- Erotic Collectibles -- Star Vehicles -- Rhapsody.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
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