City of God
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (640 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 087286295X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Youthful, gorgeous, sad Gregory D. Morton A beautiful first effort from Cuadros, who died shortly before the book was published. Poems and short stories. He writes with anger and nostalgia about growing up in California, learning who his friends were, discovering himself as a gay man, wrestling with AIDS, and keeping people close. A tough book to read, but worth it.. Gypsy Violets said Insightful and important short stories about those marginalized in Latino gay community_telling characters. I had to read this novel full of short stories for a Chicano literature class, and while I found myself feeling a bit uncomfortable at times, my professor's brilliant lectures helped put these short stories into context. Otherwise, I might have missed the opportunity to really read into the character's backgrounds and really . Five Stars Katrina A. Sire This is an amazing, powerful work. One I won't be forgetting anytime soon.
From the body’s first mysterious eroticism to its final humiliation and pain, Gil Cuadros gives voice to both the beauty and sorrow of our common fate. I accuse him of heart-bashing.”—Wanda ColemanGil Cuadros published stories and poems in Indivisible, High Risk 2, and Blood Whispers. His work is also on the compact disc, Verdict and the Violence: Poet’s Response to the LA Uprising. The poems and stories in City of God are as dire as they are beautiful, and sharp as a blow to the body.”—Bernard CooperI accuse Gil Cuadros of literary seduction in the nth degree…He makes me read on when I want to cry…I do not want to look at his words, and yet I cannot take my eyes away. His writing cuts like a d
. This pairing of sexuality and death, most clearly explored in Cuadros's riveting descriptions of the body and its failings, unfolds repeatedly throughout the book: while the narrator of "Unprotected" describes the safe yet sterile sex of the '90s as a lesson in physical humiliation, the protagonist of "Letting Go" must mourn a dead lover while recognizing the potential for rebirth found in someone new. From Publishers Weekly The stories and poems that make up City of God explode out of the Latino neighborhoods of Los Angeles, where a variety of narrators-some young, some old, some first exploring their burgeoning sexuality, some withering away from AIDS-must daily confront the twin experiences of empowerment and shame in late-20th-century gay life. City of God provides frank, powerful testimony to life's continuation du