Gary In Your Pocket: Stories and Notebooks of Gary Fisher (Series Q)
This volume of poetry, short stories, and journal entries was selected and edited by noted Duke theorist Sedgwick from notebooks Fisher kept from high school through his death from AIDS at 32. This first publication of Fisher's work evidences an extraordinary talent?it is full of wit, always honest (sometimes brutally so), deeply intimate, and colored throughout with an overriding sweetness. Fisher explores the difficult and overlapping terrains of sexuality, race, and racism; the body (his relation to others and to his own changing body); and death. Fisher's journal and other writings also chronicle his growing identification as a writer and a passion for the process of writing that the reader can hardly escape. This is an important addition to the too-small body of works by African American gay men; for all libraries with gay studies collections.?Karl Bryant, Univ. of California, Santa BarbaraCopyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.