Brocken Spectre
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
ISBN-13: 9781948579209
Subjects: Poetry (poetic works by one author); Poetry, collections
Description: "Set in San Francisco, Brocken Spectre examines the way the past presses up against the present. The speaker, raised in the wake of the AIDS crisis, engages with ideas of belatedness, of looking back to a past that cannot be inhabited, of the ethics of memory, and of the dangers in memorializing and romanticizing tragedy. Caught between generations with no queer ancestral guidance, poems consider the ethical implication of memory, of public and private tragedies"--