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BRUCE BOONE S published work includes Karate Flower, My Walk With Bob, Century of Clouds, The Truth About Ted, and with Robert Gluck, La Fontaine. In addition, Boone has translated the work of Georges Bataille, Pascal Quignard, and Jean Francois Lyotard. He lives in San Francisco. ROB HALPERN is the author of Music for Porn and Common Place, among other books.
“Bruce Boone has the perfect cadence of a real writer, part awe,
part critique. He can see.”—Peter Gizzi
“Boone is a master of this moment. Where everything that was under
the surface—felt just below the surface of a story’s
language—emerges suddenly.”—Thom Donovan, Poetry Foundation
“With three small books—My Walk with Bob, The Truth About Ted, and
Century of Clouds—Bruce Boone established himself as a pioneer of a
gay-inflected New Narrative in the 1970s and early 1980s.”—Tyrone
Williams, raintaxi
“Boone’s easy-going, rare frankness, his thoughtfulness and
awareness about the act of writing itself, his candidness and
inclusivity about his aims and wishes, all make for a delicious and
unabashedly charming writing style.”—Colin Herd, 3 AM Magazine
Bruce Boone is almost always right about everything. Ideas are like
glittering objects, held to the light and examined from every
possible angle, but he doesn’t forget that discourse is also a form
of seduction. Rob Halpern’s collection arrives like a gift. Bruce
Boone is the most perfect writer.—Chris Kraus
It seems like forever that Bruce Boone’s glorious work has been
pressurizing people like myself who might have otherwise not sought
infinitudes when writing prose and poetry. Finding him as a young
wannabe Rimbaud-type boinked my ambitions and made me chase skill,
and he still does. —Dennis Cooper
We writers in the Bay Area bicker often about the Bruce Boone
that’s best, whether it’s Hippie Bruce, Existential Bruce, Marxist
Bruce, Zen Bruce, Alien Bruce, Sub Bruce, Doomsday Bruce, or some
Fugitive Bruce that’s escaped notice. The sum of these Bruces is,
in more ways than one, the book you are now perusing. Not so much
dismembered as remembered, bound together for the first time, each
of these texts articulates discrete (and indiscreet!) themes that
continue resonating through Bruce’s life and ours. On one page,
I’ll find the ear turning toward a friend’s gossip. On another,
I’ll find the hand reaching out in leftist solidarity. On another,
I’ll find the lips parting with carnal abandon. The fact is, all
the Bruces in Bruce Boone Dismembered hold their own lyrically,
grippingly, sensually in the circumstances where they were
generated and the uncertainty of our present.—Evan Kennedy
Bruce Boone Dismembered is an extraordinary record of the evolution
of a politically engaged fiction writer, poet, critic, and theorist
who has spent his career bridging commitments to “identity-based”
queer literary movements, socialist labor politics, postwar
avant-garde and experimental poetic traditions. In particular, the
remarkable late-70s and early-80s essays on the academic reception
of Frank O’Hara, Robert Duncan, the New Left, and the Gay
Liberation Movement anticipate contemporary debates over the vexed
relationship between “identity,” Marxist theory, and increasingly
depoliticized, “post-critical,” and disengaged experimental writing
strategies. What comes out clear in this inspiring collection of
Boone’s works is a lifelong commitment to reimagining the
possibilities of left writing in the US attentive to the strategic
intelligence of emergent social movements.—Chris Chen
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