Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper 1609386914, 9781609386917

Dennis Cooper is one of the most inventive and prolific artists of our time. Working in a variety of forms and media sin

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
One. Wrong/The Adolescence of an Iconoclast
Two. Sturm und Drang/Rimbaud and Sade
Three. A Poetics of Dissociability/The Punk Poets of Los Angeles
Four. “I’m Yours”/Frank O’Hara, Paul Goodman, and The Tenderness of the Wolves
Five. Safe and the Aesthetics of Distance
Six. “If There Actually Is Such a Thing as New Narrative . . .”
Seven. “Fuck Sexual Conformity”/Anarcho-Homo Radicalism in the 1980s
Eight. The George Miles Cycle
Nine. JT LeRoy and My Loose Thread/“I Had No Other Choice”
Ten. The Automated and the Eerie/Collaborations with Gisèle Vienne
Eleven. Dennis Cooper’s Blog
Twelve. Reading for Queer Subculture in The Marbled Swarm
Thirteen. Asignifying Desire/HTML Novels and Feature Films
Afterword. Starting with Friendship
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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