WOJNAROWICZ, David
Memories That Smell Like Gasoline

This volume collects four tales: "Into the Drift and Sway," "Doing Time in a Disposable Body," "Spiral" and the title story, interspersed with ink drawings by the artist. "Sometimes it gets dark in here behind these eyes I feel like the physical equivalent of a scream. The highway at night in the headlights of this speeding car speeding is the only motion that lets the heart unravel and in the wind of the road the two story framed houses appear one after the other like some cinematic stage set..." From these opening sentences of the book (in "Into the Drift and Sway"), Wojnarowicz lets loose a salvo of explicit gay sexual reverie harshly lit by the New York cityscape. [publisher's note]

Published by Artspace Books, 2016
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