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Avant-Garde Interrupted: A New Narrative after AIDS

Avant-Garde Interrupted: A New Narrative after AIDS KAPLAN PAGE HARRIS Of the writers who have died, whose work do you miss the most, that is, the work that didn't get written? Robert Gluck to Sarah Schulman, "BGXOXSS" ¨ oet, novelist, critic, and playwright Kevin Killian watched scores of writers and artists die in the 1980s and 1990s. Many of them were his close friends. Faced with a crisis that offered no a priori writing template, no model that did not seem derivative or misplaced, Killian took nearly a decade to settle on a poetic response. He ultimately hit upon an unlikely inspiration--to allegorize the AIDS epidemic through the blood-splattered cinema of Italian horror director Dario Argento. The poems in Killian's 2001 Argento Series christened the first decade of the century with an elegy to figures who had altered the terrain of poetry--and certainly would have continued to do so had their careers not come to a premature end. For my contribution to this special issue, I want to consider Argento Series as a book that helps us to see not only a poetic history that might have been but also the genealogical rifts that continue to shape the social and aesthetic horizons of contemporary experimental http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Contemporary Literature University of Wisconsin Press

Avant-Garde Interrupted: A New Narrative after AIDS

Contemporary Literature , Volume 52 (4) – Apr 13, 2011

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KAPLAN PAGE HARRIS Of the writers who have died, whose work do you miss the most, that is, the work that didn't get written? Robert Gluck to Sarah Schulman, "BGXOXSS" ¨ oet, novelist, critic, and playwright Kevin Killian watched scores of writers and artists die in the 1980s and 1990s. Many of them were his close friends. Faced with a crisis that offered no a priori writing template, no model that did not seem derivative or misplaced, Killian took nearly a decade to settle on a poetic response. He ultimately hit upon an unlikely inspiration--to allegorize the AIDS epidemic through the blood-splattered cinema of Italian horror director Dario Argento. The poems in Killian's 2001 Argento Series christened the first decade of the century with an elegy to figures who had altered the terrain of poetry--and certainly would have continued to do so had their careers not come to a premature end. For my contribution to this special issue, I want to consider Argento Series as a book that helps us to see not only a poetic history that might have been but also the genealogical rifts that continue to shape the social and aesthetic horizons of contemporary experimental

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Contemporary LiteratureUniversity of Wisconsin Press

Published: Apr 13, 2011

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