Don't Leave Me This Way

By Joan Smith, Joan Smith, Eric Sneathen

Book Overview

A textual and historigraphical odyssey imbued with queer intergenerational yearning and loss.

Don't Leave Me This Way blends archival research with sexual fantasy to produce a series of sonnets inspired by Ga?tan Dugas, named by Randy Shilts as "Patient Zero" of the AIDS epidemic in North America. Committed to the utopian possibilities of elegy and pornography, Don't Leave Me This Way exploits the absurdist beauty of the cut-up technique to voice a chorus of lost spirits: poignant, vengeful, and ready to ball.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643621769
• ISBN13: 9781643621760
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

A charming British mystery

I purchased this book for a dime at a library sale, expecting very little. It turned out to be an absolutely delightful read. It's well written, with crisp British dialogue. I searched for her other books after reading this and wasn't disappointed