{"product_id":"dont-leave-me-this-way-9781643621760","title":"Don't Leave Me This Way","description":"\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA textual and historigraphical odyssey imbued with queer intergenerational yearning and loss.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eDon't Leave Me This Way\u003c\/i\u003e blends archival research with sexual fantasy to produce a series of sonnets inspired by Gaétan Dugas, named by Randy Shilts as \"Patient Zero\" of the AIDS epidemic in North America. Committed to the utopian possibilities of elegy and pornography, \u003ci\u003eDon't Leave Me This Way\u003c\/i\u003e exploits the absurdist beauty of the cut-up technique to voice a chorus of lost spirits: poignant, vengeful, and ready to ball.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric Sneathen\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and queer literary historian living in Oakland. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eSnail Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (Krupskaya, 2016) and \u003ci\u003eDon't Leave Me This Way\u003c\/i\u003e (Nightboat Books, 2023). With Lauren Levin, he edited \u003ci\u003eHoney Mine\u003c\/i\u003e (Nightboat Books, 2021), the selected fictions of Camille Roy.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Nightboat Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50648327225618,"sku":"9781643621760","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_55c3fc5a-634d-4de2-af17-2b34a7eee509.jpg?v=1733239715","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dont-leave-me-this-way-9781643621760","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}