Memories that smell like gasoline

ISBN: 9781643622712
ISBN: 1643622714
Physical Description: xv, 81 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition: [New and revised edition]
Publisher: New York : Nightboat Books, [2025]

Book

Memories that smell like gasoline / David Wojnarowicz ; foreword by Ocean Vuong ; a note from the editor by Amy Scholder.

Wojnarowicz, David, (author,, artist.). Vuong, Ocean, 1988- (author of foreword.). Scholder, Amy, (editor.).

Summary:

"David Wojnarowicz, one of the most provocative artists of his generation, explores memory, violence, and the erotism of public space--all under the specter of AIDS. Here are David Wojnarowicz's most intimate stories and sketches, from the full spectrum of his life as an artist and AIDS activist. Four sections 'Into the Drift and Sway,' 'Doing Time in a Disposable Body,' 'Spiral,' and 'Memories that Smell like Gasoline'--are made of images and indictments of a precocious adolescence, and his later adventures in the streets of New York. Combining text and image, tenderness and rage, Wojnarowicz's Memories that Smell like Gasoline is a disavowal of the world that wanted him dead, and a radical insistence on life."--Amazon.com.