Beautiful aliens : a Steve Abbott reader / edited by Jamie Townsend ; afterword by Alysia Abbott.

"Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader is a landmark collection representing the visionary life's work of beloved Bay Area luminary Steve Abbott. It brings together a broad cross-section of literary and artistic work spanning three decades of poetry, fiction, collage, comics, essays, and autobiogr...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Works. Selections
Main Author:	Abbott, Steve, 1943-1992 (Author)
Other Authors:	Townsend, Jamie (Editor) Abbott, Alysia (writer of afterword.)
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Nightboat Books, [2019]
Subjects:	Gay men's writings, American > 20th century. Gay men > Poetry. Gay men > Fiction. American essays > 20th century. American essays. Gay men. Gay men's writings, American. 1900-1999 Fiction. Gay comics. Gay fiction. Gay poetry. Poetry.
Genre:	Poetry. Fiction. Gay comics. Gay fiction. Gay poetry.
Physical Description:	xxii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Lives of the poets
From Lost causes
From Wrecked hearts
The malcontent
From Stretching the agape bra
Uncollected poems
Writing my first novel
From Holy terror
Essays
Famous last words
Illustrated poems & comics
Living an unplanned life
Skinny trip to a far place
Afterword / by Alysia Abbott.