Brocken Spectre
Author | : Jacques J. Rancourt |
Publisher | : Alice James Books |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2021-09-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781948579445 |
ISBN-13 | : 1948579448 |
Rating | : 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Download or read book Brocken Spectre written by Jacques J. Rancourt and published by Alice James Books. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in San Francisco, Brocken Spectre examines the way the past presses up against the present. The speaker, raised in the wake of the AIDS crisis, engages with ideas of belatedness, of looking back to a past that cannot be inhabited, of the ethics of memory, and of the dangers in memorializing and romanticizing tragedy.