The Pink Trance Notebooks by Wayne Koestenbaum

One chapter, ``A Pocket Guide to Queer Moments in Opera,'' analyzes 28 opera highlights from a gay perspective. Hello Select your address Books Hello, Sign in. a camp style of resistance and protection.'' He presents 12 psychosocial explanations for the ``gay cult'' of Maria Callas. The Pink Trance Notebooks: Koestenbaum, Wayne: 9781937658403: Books - Amazon.ca. He views singing as analogous to gays' coming out of the closet and relates the diva's body movements, vocal attack and public persona to ``a style that gay people, particularly queens, have found essential. But Koestenbaum ( Ode to Anna Moffo and Other Poems ) strains to find reasons for the reputed affinity of gay men for opera. The Pink Trance Notebooks is the product of the year Wayne Koestenbaum stopped keeping the traditional journal he had maintained for three.

Reimagine doing the laundry as having an orgasm, and reinterpret orgasm as not a tiny experience, temporally limited, occurring in a single human body, but as an experience that somehow touches on all of human history.” Figure It Out is both a guidebook for, and the embodiment of, the practices of pleasure, attentiveness, art, and play.Koestenbaum, who is gay and teaches English at Yale, calls himself an ``opera queen'' because he is addicted to opera, fetishizes records, tries to befriend divas and keeps lists of his opera ``highs.'' A literate amalgam of speculation, gossip, reminiscences and historical lore, his confessions are one fan's passionate love letter to the opera, illustrated with photographs and memorabilia. Call it Sabrina.” “Describe an ungenerous or unkind act you have committed.” “Find in every orgasm an encyclopedic richness. Wayne Koestenbaums daily observations, musings, and obsessive attachments that. He directly proposes assignments to readers: “Buy a one-dollar cactus, and start anthropomorphizing it. In thirty-four numbered entries, The Pink Trance Notebooks (2015) assemble. In them, as below, Koestenbaum concatenates and concentrates the world to its most monadic units of precious junk, stray memoranda, elusive and sensuous at-hand-ness. Wayne dreams about a handjob from John Ashbery, swims next to Nicole Kidman, reclaims Robert Rauschenberg’s squeegee, and apotheosizes Marguerite Duras as a destroyer of sentences. Sharing his many hats as poet, painter, scholar and academic, his new poem is drawn from a sequence published this month by Nightboat, The Pink Trance Notebooks. A subway passenger’s leather bracelet prompts musings on the German word for “stranger” Montaigne leads to the memory of a fourth-grade friend’s stinky feet. In his new nonfiction collection, poet, artist, critic, novelist, and performer Wayne Koestenbaum enacts twenty-six ecstatic collisions between his mind and the world. By collision I also mean metaphor and metonymy: operations of slide and slip and transfuse.” Add to cart Nightboat Books is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt non-profit. “Toward what goal do I aspire, ever, but collision? Always accident, concussion, bodies butting together.

The Pink Trance Notebooks by Wayne Koestenbaum