Flights of Angels: My Life with the Angels of Light
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (875 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1551522314 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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William G. Otton said Happy, sad. All about San Francisco's counter culture at one of the most excessive moments in its history. Happy, sad, tragic and real. P. Brown said Incongruities. This memoir comes unvarnished, a raw but beautifully written account of life in an era characterized by inspired and truly inventive energy alongside desperation and despair. I was in awe of the artistic risks taken by members of the Angels of Light and loved reading about the unfolding dramas involved in creating each production. This was a group that knew how to push every limit, producing moments of brilliance and courage and genuine fun. Adrian Brooks captures the intensity of these moments and portrays the stunning assortment of those involved in vivi. A character-driven history Adrian Brooks' beautifully observed history of the Angles of Light is, as I observed on the book's jacket, also an utterly magical evocation of an era. Thankfully, Brooks has given us an astute, unabashedly first person account of the Angels, warts and all. With a poet's ear for language, and a dramatist's grasp of character, Brooks' Angels of Light are a concatenation of individually incandescent personalities, not least of all his. People this compelling will easily hold the reader's attention; what elevates the book to something yet greater is the textu
Adrian Brooks was a charter member of the Angels and the author of most of their shows. He also describes his early years as a Pennsylvania youth whose life is transformed working with Martin Luther King, then subsequently cavorting in Andy Warhol’s world in Manhattan, before heading west, where the Angels made perfect, beautiful sense of the world. Featuring more than seventy-five full-color photographs, Flight of Angels is a remarkable, elegiac ode to the ecstasy and defiance of queer life and culture before the AIDS crisis.. In this vivid memoir, San Francisco in the 1970
Dan Nicoletta is a freelance photographer who worked in Harvey Milk?s camera store in San Francisco in the 1970s; he later worked on Milk?s political campaigns, including his victorious election to public office on one of the first openly gay platforms in the world. His photography has been exhibited widely in the US and Europe.. From 1973 to 1980, he was at the vanguard of gay liberation with the Angels of Light in San Francisco. Adrian Brooks is a poet, performer, novelist, an
The result is a no-holds-barred story set within the larger framework the defined the era, the country, and especially its urban centers. —Library Journal (Library Journal 2008-06-18). Brooks is certainly honest, and he recreates a unique era that was ultimately shattered by the passage of time and devastation of AIDS. Nicoletta's striking photographs enhance this unusual text