{"product_id":"virgil-kills-paperback","title":"Virgil Kills - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRonaldo Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLinked stories alighting from a U.S., Black and Filipino imaginary through a central character Virgil, and his accounts on race, sex, and desire.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVirgil 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRonaldo V. Wilson, PhD, is the author of: \u003ci\u003eNarrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), winner of the Cave Canem Prize; \u003ci\u003ePoems of the Black Object\u003c\/i\u003e (Futurepoem, 2009), winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the Asian American Literary Award in Poetry. His latest books are \u003ci\u003eFarther Traveler: Poetry, Prose\u003c\/i\u003e (Counterpath Press, 2014), finalist for a Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, \u003ci\u003eLucy 72\u003c\/i\u003e (1913 Press, 2018); and two forthcoming books \u003ci\u003eCarmelina, Figures: An Artist's Book\u003c\/i\u003e (Wendy's Subway, 2021), and a book of stories, \u003ci\u003eVirgil Kills\u003c\/i\u003e (Nightboat Books, 2022). Co-founder of the Black Took Collective, Wilson is, too, a mixed media artist, dancer and performer. He has performed in multiple venues, including the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, UC Riverside's Artsblock, Georgetown's Lannan Center, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Louisiana State University's Digital Media Center Theater, Southern Exposure Gallery, and Casa Victoria Ocampo in Buenos Aires. The recipient of fellowships from The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Cave Canem, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the Ford Foundation, Kundiman, MacDowell, the National Research Council, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Center for Art and Thought (CA+T), and Yaddo, and is Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, serving on the core faculty of the Creative Critical PhD Program, and principal faculty member of CRES (Critical Race and Ethnic Studies).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 21, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767952605472,"sku":"9781643621180","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/50dee045993fc033bfaaba9cff8e3975.webp?v=1780321377","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/virgil-kills-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}