My Body is Paper by Gil Cuadros Paperback Book 9780872869097

amp34Cuadros died of AIDS in 1996 two years after chronicling the disease in City of God a book of poems and stories about queer Los Angeles His belated followup takes the same form with the same bracing urgencyamp34The New York Times amp34Without doubt one of the sexiest and most important writers Ive ever readamp34amp8212Justin Torres author of Blackoutsamp34My Body Is Paperamp160is a testament to the unrelenting literary magic of Gil Cuadros Through poetry and prose Cuadros holds a mirror up to California reflecting this land of dualities back at us He gives us sunshine and sickness ecstasy and drudgery eros and death I am so very grateful for his workamp34amp8212Myriam Gurba author of Creep Accusations and ConfessionsSince City of God 1994 by Gil Cuadros was published 30 years ago it has become an unlikely classic an amp34essential book of Los Angelesamp34 according to the LA Times touching readers and writers who find in his work a singular evocation of Chicanx life in Los Angeles during and leading up to the AIDS epidemic which took his life in 1996 Little did we know Cuadros continued writing exuberant prose and poems in the period between his one published book and his...