A Day and a Night at the Baths
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.69 (748 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0982807406 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 146 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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He began to write directly about his life as a gay man in the volumes A Day and a Night at the Baths (1979) and MY FIRST SATYRNALIA (1981). . His first book, The Butterfly, is a fictionalized memoir of his brief affair with a young Yoko Ono, published before Ono became famous. He is a graduate of Black Mountain College (1955) and Columbia University (1970). Black Mountain Days, a memoir of his time at Black Mountain College, has a strong autobiographical element In addition, there are portraits of many students, faculty, and visitors (especially the poets Robert Creeley and Charles Olson) during its last years, 1952-1956. Most of Rumaker's fiction concerns his life as a gay man. About the Author Michael Rumaker is an American author (born Ma
Soak It In "A Day and a Night at the Baths" has quite the self-explanatory title, but don't pigeonhole this book as a steamy artifact of 70's pulp. Sexual transactions can be complicated, sticky, arduous, and especially difficult and revelatory during a transitional period of intense repression and discrimination. The poetry of the body, lust, de. Andreams said A Day and a Night at the Baths, Michael Rumaker. I've read several M/M books that refer to the baths and always wondered exactly what it meant and what they were like. This book explains that in detail. It's beautifully written but it's one of the saddest books I've ever read; it shoved reality in my face and made me feel the horrible loneliness that gay men must have felt just a ver. Tom C. said incredible piece of history. Rumaker's epilogue neatly ties the story of the past and present day together.. incredible piece of history. Rumaker's epilogue neatly ties the story of the past and present day together. A captivating story.
He is a graduate of Black Mountain College (1955) and Columbia University (1970). Michael Rumaker is an American author (born March 5, 1932 in Philadelphia, PA), to Michael Joseph and Winifred Marvel Rumaker. Black Mountain Days, a memoir of his time at Black Mountain College, has a strong autobiographical element In addition, there are portraits of many students, faculty, and visitors (especially the poets Robert Creeley and Charles Olson) dur
from the intro). The dates are important to mention in order to put the open sensuality in the novel in perspective., that is, pre-AIDS, when male-male sexuality was being liberated from its centuries-long subterranean hiddenness into a visibility if only, in this instance, of the twilit and claustrophobic "freedom" of a bath house. (M.R