Gil Cuadros (1962–1996)
Auteur van City of God
Werken van Gil Cuadros
My Body is Paper: Stories and Poems 3 exemplaren
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- Geboortedatum
- 1962-07-22
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1996-08-29
- Geslacht
- male
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- 4
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- 50
- Populariteit
- #316,248
- Waardering
- 4.4
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- 1
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- 2
Cuadros started writing after being diagnosed with HIV in 1987. His writing has a raw edge. There is a touch of mysticism and a poetic quality in the stories, while his prose poems have more of a storyline at times. Cuadros blurs the lines, exploring gender roles in Mexican-American culture and the progression of HIV in his partner and then himself. I cried several times reading this short collection, all the more because I know this was all Cuadros wrote before his death in 1996, at the age of 34. (Content warning for death, dying, and childhood sexual abuse.)… (meer)