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West of Yesterday, East of Summer: New and Selected Poems (1973-1993)

West of Yesterday, East of Summer: New and Selected Poems (1973-1993)


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A poetry collection spanning the career of award-winning writer Paul Monette Paul Monette got his start writing poetry, and it was to this form that he returned following the death of his partner Roger Horwitz from AIDS-related complications. This stunning collection includes Monette's early work as well as the beautiful and wrenching poems borne out of this immense loss. Written with characteristic wit, these poems deftly traverse humor, rage, love, and sorrow. West of Yesterday, East of Summer captures the range of an important writer. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Paul Monette including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the Paul Monette papers of the UCLA Library Special Collections.

About the Author :
Paul Monette (1945-1995) was an author, poet, and gay rights activist. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Yale University, he moved with his partner Roger Horwitz to Los Angeles in 1978 and became involved in the gay rights movement. Monette's writing captures the sense of heartbreak and loss at the center of the AIDS crisis. His first novel, Taking Care of Mrs. Carroll, was published in 1978, and he went on to write several more works of fiction, poetry, and memoir. Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir, the tender account of his partner's battle with the disease, earned him both PEN Center West and Lambda Literary Awards. In 1992, Monette won the National Book Award in Nonfiction for Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story, an autobiography detailing his early life and his struggle with his sexuality. Written as a classic coming-of-age story, Becoming a Man became a seminal coming-out story. In 1995, Monette founded the Monette-Horwitz Trust, which honors individuals and organizations working to combat homophobia. Monette died in his home in West Hollywood in 1995 of complications from AIDS.

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"A moving summation of a poet's work. In the finest of these poems, beauty and horror are not mutually exclusive qualities; they commingle with all the depth and complexity of experience itself." --Mark Doty, Bay Windows "Deceptively popular writing that packs a revolutionary wallop." --Susan Brownmiller, Chicago Tribune "This impressive body of work has been brought together to reveal the extraordinary diversity of his career as a poet, from the sublime to the heroic." --Midwest Book Review "In a torrential, unpunctuated style, Monette's poetry captures the experience of living with a loved one who has AIDS. . . . Monette's newest poems are unabashedly satirical. . . . Moving in their anger and their mourning, the new poems testify to Monette's position: 'AIDS is the great cleave in the world, and nothing will ever be the same again. I'm glad I was able to take my stand with the suffering and the banished.' " --Publishers Weekly "The book is more than the poems it contains. It is the stuff of high art, and awful existence: life and literature colliding." --Lambda Book Report


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781480473737
  • Publisher: Open Road Media
  • Publisher Imprint: Open Road Media
  • Edition: Digital original
  • No of Pages: 112
  • ISBN-10: 1480473731
  • Publisher Date: 25 Mar 2014
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: New and Selected Poems (1973-1993)


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