Rocksong Noelle Stevenson And as old Cold War

And as old Cold War tensions begin to tear his life apart

she attempts to assimilate their advice and ideas in order to not break up with Girlfriend

Quieter and less formal than the famed London literary salons

But when Hector dies of AIDS-related complications

Rocksong Noelle Stevenson And as old Cold WarROCKSONG is a shamelessly baroque ride through the nadirs and summits of the contemporary queer. Its a decadent book, where decadence isnt a cipher for self indulgence, but a fierce and fugitive resistance. As Audre Lorde writes We survived and survival breeds desire for more self. Or, in the glowing neon precincts of Rocksong, more selves, plural. These poems flirt and confront in turns, they seduce and attack, they are tender and grotesque. They