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For fifty years Samuel Delany has cultivated a special relationship
with language in works of fiction, criticism, and memoir that have
garnered critical praise and legions of fans. The present volume -
the first in a series - reveals a new dimension of his genius. In
Search of Silence presents over a decade's worth of Delany's
private journals, commencing in 1957 when he was still a student at
the Bronx High School of Science, and ending in 1969 when he was
living in San Francisco and on the verge of reconceiving the novel
that would become Dhalgren. In these pages, Delany muses on the
writing of the stories that will establish him as a science fiction
wunderkind, the early years of his marriage to the poet Marilyn
Hacker, performances as a singer-songwriter during the heyday of
the American folk revival, travels in Europe, experiences in a New
York City commune, and much more - and crosses paths with artists
working in many genres, including poets such as Robert Frost, W. H.
Auden, and Marie Ponsot, and science fiction writers such as Arthur
C. Clarke, Michael Moorcock, Roger Zelazny, and Joanna Russ. Delany
scholar Kenneth R. James presents the journal entries alongside
generous samplings of story outlines, poetry, fragments of novels
and essays that have never seen publication, and more; James also
provides biographical synopses and an extensive set of endnotes to
supply contextual information and connect journal material to
Delany's published work.
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