Full Description
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.
Contents
VIRGIL Virgil Returns to Manhattan
The Dance
The Vent
The Conservation of Mass
Party, Party
The Wounded
Virgil Kills
The Operation
The After Party
Dream Vision in Blue and Black
Silent Incantations
CRITIQUE
Virgil's Findings
The Pieces
The Platform
The Conversation
Dream Collaged with Reality
The Releases
Virgil is a Conceptual Artist
Into the Future
The Greatest
Lost and Found
Virgil Discovers Waste
Basement
Competition
VESTIBULE
Station
Crypt
Alright
Haunt
Pod
Demand
Coast
SACRA
Fantastic
Structure
Eyed, Virgil
Virgil's Going Home
LINEThe Fairmount
Among
Recall
Consequence
The Line
Staring
The Oasis
Virgil
Only
Dream
