«Il confine della morte e l'atto stesso di morire circondano tutto come un caldo alone di luce, a volte flebile a volte raggiante. osservo me stesso osservare la morte». In questo memoir urgente e denso, David Wojnarowicz offre uno spaccato violento e caleidoscopico sulla diffusione dell'Hiv in America e su cosa significhi essere omosessuale in una societą, quella bigotta reaganiana degli anni '80, dove domina il modello eteronormato della «famigliola felice» e in cui si reprime a colpi di leggi, sentenze, arresti e pestaggi la voce di chi vive ai margini. 'Sul filo della lama' č un trip acido nel dolore, una sbronza in un dive bar sull'Hudson, un roadtrip furioso nella polvere dell'American dream, raccontato attraverso una costellazione di capitoli dal taglio ora onirico ora fortemente politico, frutto di una vita dedicata a lottare per il diritto alla salute e alla corretta informazione e per il diritto di amare oltre ogni laccio sociale. Un'opera di un'intensitą che scorre a fior di pelle.

7 Miles a Second is the story of legendary artist David Wojnarowicz, written during the last years before his AIDS-related death in 1992, and drawn by James Romberger with colors by Marguerite Van Cook. The graphic novel depicts Wojnarowicz’s childhood of prostitution and drugs on the streets of Manhattan, through his adulthood living with AIDS, and his anger at the indifference of government and health agencies. Originally published as a comic book in 1996 by DC’s Vertigo Comics, an imprint best-known for horror and fantasy material such as The Sandman, 7 Miles a Second was an instant critical success, but struggled to find an audience amongst the typical Vertigo readership. It has become a cult classic amongst fans of literary and art comics, just as Wojnarowicz’s influence and reputation have widened in the larger art world. Romberger and Van Cook’s visuals give stunning life to Wojnarowicz’s words, blending the gritty naturalism of Lower East Side street life with a hallucinatory, psychedelic imagination that takes perfect advantage of the comics medium. This new edition will finally present the artwork as it was intended: oversized, and with Van Cook’s elegant watercolors restored. It also includes several new pages created for this edition.

The late author, a gay activist, artist, and writer, presents a collection of his early works of autobiographical fiction, written as short monologues delivered by a variety of characters from the highways of America

In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection of creative essays -- a scathing, sexy, sublimely humorous and honest personal testimony to the "Fear of Diversity in America." From the author's violent childhood in suburbia to eventual homelessness on the streets and piers of New York City, to recognition as one of the most provocative artists of his generation -- Close to the Knives is his powerful and iconoclastic memoir. Street life, drugs, art and nature, family, AIDS, politics, friendship and acceptance: Wojnarowicz challenges us to examine our lives -- politically, socially, emotionally, and aesthetically.