A Day and a Night at the Baths
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.47 (738 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0982807406 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 146 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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His short stories, Gringos and Other Stories, appeared in 1967. He is a graduate of Black Mountain College (1955) and Columbia University (1970). Black Mountain Days, a memoir of his time at Black Mountain College, has a strong autobiographical element In addition, there are portraits of many students, faculty, and visitors (especially the poets Robert Creeley and Charles Olson) during its last years, 1952-
(M.R. from the intro). The dates are important to mention in order to put the open sensuality in the novel in perspective., that is, pre-AIDS, when male-male sexuality was being liberated from its centuries-long subterranean hiddenness into a visibility if only, in this instance, of the twilit and claustrophobic "freedom" of a bath house
"Soak It In" according to Thomas Cardamone. "A Day and a Night at the Baths" has quite the self-explanatory title, but don't pigeonhole this book as a steamy artifact of 70's pulp. Sexual transactions can be complicated, sticky, arduous, and especially difficult and revelatory during a transitional period of intense repression and discrimination. The poetry of the body, lust, desire and the urban tribe are all here, making this first-person erotic adventure at the infamous Everard Baths more journey than journal.Rumaker was a participant in the birth of two new poetic forms: the beats and postmodernism, and strong bolts of lyricism run through "Baths:""Let me not . "A Day and a Night at the Baths, Michael Rumaker" according to Andreams. I've read several M/M books that refer to the baths and always wondered exactly what it meant and what they were like. This book explains that in detail. It's beautifully written but it's one of the saddest books I've ever read; it shoved reality in my face and made me feel the horrible loneliness that gay men must have felt just a very short time ago.I won't forget this book for a very long while.19A Day and a Night at the Baths, Michael Rumaker I've read several M/M books that refer to the baths and always wondered exactly what it meant and what they were like. This book explains that in detail. It's beautifully written but it's one of the saddest books I've ever read; it shoved reality in my face and made me feel the horrible loneliness that gay men must have felt just a very short time ago.I won't forget this book for a very long while.1935 kindle locations. 5 kindle locations. Tom C. said incredible piece of history. Rumaker's epilogue neatly ties the story of the past and present day together.. incredible piece of history. Rumaker's epilogue neatly ties the story of the past and present day together. A captivating story.
His first book, The Butterfly, is a fictionalized memoir of his brief affair with a young Yoko Ono, published before Ono became famous. . The novel Pagan Days (1991) is told from the perspective of an eight-year old boy struggling to understand his gay self. He is a graduate of Black Mountain College (1955) and Columbia University (1970). Black Mountain Days, a memoir of his time at Black Mountain College, has a strong autobiographical element In addition, there are portraits of many students, faculty, and visitors (especially the poets Robert Creeley and Charles Olson) during its last years, 1952-1956. Most of Rumaker's fiction concerns his life as a gay man. He began to write directly about his life as a gay man in