Virgil Kills

Linked stories alighting from a U.S., Black and Filipino imaginary through a central character Virgil, and his accounts on race, sex, and desire. Virgil kills forms, manifesting a set of poetic investigations--revealing black and brown life, memory, dreams, the sea, the sex-act, the line. Virgil travels in theaters and lots: Manhattan, Guam, Santa Cruz, Sacramento, Berlin, Iloilo, Provincetown, Millington, San Francisco, Long Island, Western Mass. Virgil moves against class, whiteness, on stages, at lecterns, in studios, and a luxury vehicle. Virgil records in the sensorium of cruising lovers, real love, family, T.V., characters--"Butch," "Stream," "Clean"--his precise unfurling.

• | Author: Ronaldo Wilson
• | Publisher: Nightboat Books
• | Publication Date: Jun 21, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Fiction
• | ISBN-10: 1643621181
• | ISBN-13: 9781643621180