Title: The goodbyes
First published: 1982
Description: Sonatas. Rain. Musical animals. Angels. Braided intersections. Architraves. Office buildings in sunsets. Those puppet theatres you used to be able to make up from the backs of breakfast cereals packets. . . . Sexual encounters in modernized fairy-tales. Science Fiction and disguised nostalgia. Some portraits . . . Music, not painting, as paradigm. Large rhythmic units, not 'metrically exact lines', not iambics except as ancestral ghosts . . .
Subjects: Poetry (poetic works by one author), Gay men, Poetry, Gay men's writings
LC classification: MLCS 82/6769