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Carr, Cynthia, 1950-

Fire in the belly : the life and times of David Wojnarowicz / Cynthia Carr.

1st U.S. ed.

New York : Bloomsbury, 2012.

613 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.

A full-length account of the life and career of the artist and gay activist centers on the infamous 2010 censoring of "A Fire in My Belly," exploring Wojnarowicz's brutal childhood, relationship with his contemporaries, and early death from AIDS in 1992.

Wojnarowicz, David.

Artists -- United States -- Biography.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Where something broke -- Dissolution -- The street -- The secret life -- At the shattered edge of the map -- The flaneur -- Go Fimbaud -- Nightclubbing -- The poverty of Peter Hujar -- A union of different drummers -- Rampages of raw energy -- Will they allow me on the moon? -- Pressure point -- A burning child -- Hello darkness, my old friend -- "Something turning emotional and wild -- " -- Some sort of grace -- Elegiac times -- Acceleration -- A blood-filled egg -- Witnesses -- Embattled -- Desperate to bring a light -- "Like a marble rolling down a hill -- ".

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