Rhapsodies of a repeat offender : poems / Wayne Koestenbaum.
- Title
- Rhapsodies of a repeat offender : poems / Wayne Koestenbaum.
- Published by
- New York : Persea, c1994.
- Author
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- Description
- 119 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- 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
- Genre/Form
- Gay poetry
- Poetry
- Contents
- Rhapsody -- Piano Life -- Erotic Collectibles -- Star Vehicles -- Rhapsody.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain