The collected essays of the cofounder of the New Narrative
movement, on theory, identity, poetry, and muses from Kathy Acker
to Georges Bataille. I read and wrote to invoke what seemed
impossible-relation itself-in order to take part in a world that
ceaselessly makes itself up, to "wake up" to the world, to
recognize the world, to be convinced that the world exists, to take
revenge on the world for not existing. -from Communal Nude Since
cofounding San Francisco's influential New Narrative circle in
1979, Robert Gluck has been one of America's finest prose stylists
of innovative fiction, bending narrative into the service of
autobiography, politics, and gay writing. This collection brings
together for the first time Gluck's nonfiction, a revelatory body
of work that anchors his writing practice. Gluck's essays explore
the ways that storytelling and selfhood are mutually embedded
cultural forms, cohering a fractured social reality where
generating narrative means generating identity means generating
community. "I'd laugh at (make art from) any version of self,"
Gluck writes, "I write about these forms-that are myself-to
dispense with them, to demonstrate how they disintegrate before the
world, the body." For any body-or text-to know itself, it must
first see how it sees the world, and understand itself as writing.
Gluck's essays affirm this radical narratorial precept in rich
spirals of reading, self-reflection, anecdote, escapade, and
"metatext." These texts span the author's career and his creative
affinities-from lost manifestos theorizing the poetics of New
Narrative; to encomia for literary and philosophic muses (Kathy
Acker, the HOW(ever) poets, Frank O'Hara, Georges Bataille, and
others); to narrative journalism, book reviews, criticism, and
public talks. Many of the texts are culled from obscure little
magazines and ephemeral online sources; others have never been
published. As lucid as story, as lush as theory, and as
irresistible as gossip, Gluck's essays are the quintessence of New
Narrative theory in practice.
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