Love in the Time of PrEP. A Living Giant Squid -- Discourse on the Method -- Kirby -- Triptych of Our First Date in Which a Man Dies from Cardiac Arrest -- The Wake -- Heavens Kingdom -- Golden Gate Park -- Saint Josephs Oratory -- Freshwater Eel -- At the Place of Bathhouses -- In Fatima -- Prelude to the Narrows -- The End Has Not Yet Passed over Us -- White River: An Argument -- Against Whitman -- A Detail from the Bayeux Tapestry, 11th C. -- The Town -- The Loons Prove That Even before There Was a Word for Grief It Existed as Song -- June 12th, 2016 -- The Bullfrogs -- In the Castro -- Near the End of the Century -- Western Wall -- Mt. Diablo -- The Fall -- Jacques, from Jacob, Renamed Israel, Which Means, in Hebrew, He Who Wrestles God -- Golgotha -- Monster Cock -- Wild Though the Sea -- Where to Begin? -- At This Hour -- As Weather -- The Earth Is Rude, Silent, Incomprehensible -- Voyeur -- Love in the Time of PrEP.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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