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Anesthesia

Poems

by Kenny Fries.
This first full-length collection of poems by award-winning poet Kenny Fries explores how oppression and loss affect language, memory and desire. Fries not only writes about his experience of living with a congenital physical disability but also focuses on how his disability has affected his life as a Jew and as a gay man. Fries takes the reader into the deep recesses, the secret dark places, deftly transforming his personal experience into poems that movingly speak to all of us.

IncludesThe Healing Notebooks,winner of the Gregory Kolovakos Award for AIDS writing.

"In a deftly orchestrated collection, Kenny Fries brings to light a complex awareness of his history as a Jew and as a gay man physically disabled at birth. Tough-minded and sparely written, the poems take their source from a clear and calm intelligence that projects an aura of affirmation in the face of suffering and loss. Fries is not content with the merely personal; his work spins into wider worlds." --Colette Inez

83 pp. Paperback. | ASCII Diskette. | $14.95 | ISBN 0962706469 | Copyright 1996
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Tough-minded and sparely written, the poems take their source from a clear and calm intelligence that projects an aura of affirmation in the face of suffering and loss.
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