A posthumous celebration of the poet and provocateur Kevin Killian, Padam Padam pulses with camp, pop culture, and pleasure.
Kevin Killian-the puckish poet, playwright, novelist, scholar, and impresario of the Bay Area arts community-channeled the charisma of the pop stars. Pulled from his legendary corpus, and long out of print, the work collected here is the record of Killian's life as a radical litterateur. In Argento Series, Killian conjures the horror, suspense, and cinematic imagery of director Dario Argento as he documents the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco. In Action Kylie, he revels in queer identity and the universal love of fandom. In Tweaky Village and Tony Greene Era, Killian elevates artists and friends to legendary status within his personal pantheon. And Elements, Killian's wink at the periodic table, makes its U.S. debut.
The collection features an introduction by Kay Gabriel, who writes of Killian's "fabulous, permissive body of work, charming, filthy and smarmy at turns, with its retchable milk enemas and its devilish twists."
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"Kevin loved culture and was its constant undoing."
-Eileen Myles
"I used to say Kevin was the only person I ever knew who possibly could have come from a different planet-an enigma who possessed superhuman knowledge, baffling productivity, and later, super-human kindness."
-Robert Glueck
"Oh, he is a dark master of the word, Kevin Killian, an inviting bridegroom and a voyeur who'll let us play in his fictions until we're spent."
-D.A. Powell
"Like his beloved Kylie Minogue sings, Kevin created a body of work that is "more than [we] dare to think about"-a "dark secret" that filled and felt "the need," a deep need, in all of us."
-Dorothea Lasky
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Höhe: 228 mm
Breite: 152 mm
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978-1-64362-290-3 (9781643622903)
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Kevin Killian was a San Francisco-based poet, novelist, playwright, and art writer. Recent books include the poetry collections Tony Greene Era (2017) and Tweaky Village (2014). He is the coauthor of Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance (1998). With Dodie Bellamy, he coedited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing, 1977-1997 (2017).
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