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The God of San Francisco

The God of San Francisco

Siegel, James J.

Paperback

Poetry AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 194397781X
ISBN13: 9781943977819
Publisher: Sibling Rivalry Pr Llc
Published: Nov 12 2020
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.21 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In The God of San Francisco, James J. Siegel examines queer grief during the onset of the AIDS crisis through a lavender-and-leather pantheon: St. Christopher, Allah, and the God of San Francisco transubstantiate a sarcoma's cicatrix into sequins, a viral dowry into a benevolent plume of dazzling feathers. From Laramie, Wyoming, to Toledo, Ohio, Siegel performs a magisterial frilling of historical attention, always emerging as an extraordinary conflagration. A beautiful immolation. At once an elegiac columbarium and search-and-rescue map for future bliss, The God of San Francisco trills from the Castro Funeral Home to North Beach and back, surmising death as something honeyed and lissome, eulogies eulogized. Desire masquerades as a raven gliding / on the backdrop of midnight and Jesus in fishnets, / crossdressing his way through Nazareth, and desire cedes each poem's boy, spectral or otherwise, a warm hand, green grass, the sun's rays on our skin.

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