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Gary in your pocket:

stories and notebooks of Gary Fisher
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Duke University Press, 1996 - Fiction - 291 pages
The incandescent African American writer Gary Fisher was completely unpublished when he died of AIDS in 1994 at the age of 32. This volume, which includes all of Fisher’s stories and a generous selection from his journals, notebooks, and poems, will introduce readers to a tender, graphic, extravagant, and unswervingly incisive talent. In Fisher’s writings the razor-sharp rage is equalled only by the enveloping sweetness; the raw eroticism by a dazzling writerly elegance. Evocations of a haunting and mobile childhood are mixed in Fisher’s stories with an X-ray view of the racialized sexual vernaculars of gay San Francisco; while the journals braid together the narratives of sexual exploration and discovery, a joyous and deepening vocation as a writer, a growing intimacy with death, and an engagement with racial problematics that becomes ever more gravely and probingly imaginative.
A uniquely intimate, unflinching testimony of the experience of a young, African American gay man in the AIDS emergency, Gary in Your Pocket includes an introduction by Don Belton that describes Fisher’s achievement in the context of other work by Black gay men such as Marlon Riggs and Essex Hemphill, and a biographical afterword by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.

  

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this book really shook me up. i wish that i knew gary in real life. his life, his poetry and prose, his courage to write and speak are really inspirational. themes of isolation, multiple selves, internalized prejudice, sickness, all come up in this read.

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I finally read this book after hearing about it for years. I found myself reading the fragments, trying to see a life (after it was over) through the eyes of editors who were mentors and friends. Read full review

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Walking
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I hope he smiles
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Are you smart enough for Laurie
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please father
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About the author (1996)

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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of numerous books, including Tendencies and a book of poetry, Fat Art, Thin Art, both published by Duke University Press. Don Belton is the editor of Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream and author of Almost Midnight.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is Distinguished Professor of English at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of numerous books, including Tendencies and a book of poetry, Fat Art, Thin Art, both published by Duke University Press. Don Belton is the editor of Speak My Name: Black Men on Masculinity and the American Dream and author of Almost Midnight.

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TitleGary in your pocket: stories and notebooks of Gary Fisher
Series Q
AuthorGary Fisher
EditorEve Kosofsky Sedgwick
PublisherDuke University Press, 1996
ISBN0822317990, 9780822317999
Length291 pages
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