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Reading Robert Glück and Kevin Killian

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Emerging in the early 1980s, Robert Glück and Kevin Killian were part of a loose cluster of Bay Area writers who applied L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry's emphasis on language's materiality to their own lives as minority subjects. The resulting New Narrative texts pop and fizz with queer desire, stolen snippets of Barthes and Disney, and pillow talk. Taking the standpoint that real life is but one more text ripe for re-assemblage, Glück and Killian's writing still presents a dazzling alternative to the stifling cul-de-sac of most "gay lit."

– Matt Sussman