Wayne Koestenbaum, Author . Lipper/Viking $21.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-670-03000-2
With at least two full-scale biographies in addition to his own voluminous writings in print, it might seem that there is little new to say about the life and career of mass market voyeur Warhol. Koestenbaum, a poet and author of fabulously rococo...
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Wayne Koestenbaum, Author . BOA editions $14.95 (95p) ISBN 978-1-929918-56-0
In the "Warm-Up" to this Don Juan
–inspired paean to domestic life, Koestenbaum (The Queen's Throat
, etc.) laconically substitutes "I lack a subject" for Byron's "I want a hero." Stanza, in Italian, means "r
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Wayne Koestenbaum, Author . Turtle Point $16.95 (115p) ISBN 978-1-885586-43-8
Acclaimed for work in queer studies and queer theory that includes books on opera divas, Andy Warhol and Jackie Onassis, the New York–based Koestenbaum is first and foremost a poet (as well as an accomplished pianist). His fifth book of verse...
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Wayne Koestenbaum, Author Persea Books $16.5 (144p) ISBN 978-0-89255-239-9
""I don't want to know what I'm forging, I want to glide/ past obligations ampler than I've guessed..."" Slack, odd and ravishing, Koestenbaum's poems take spectacular risks--constantly self-lacerating, curtly erotic and courting of clich : ""father
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Wayne Koestenbaum, Author Vintage Books USA $14 (271p) ISBN 978-0-679-74985-1
Witty reminiscences, personal confessions and cultural analyses of the reputed affinity of gay men for opera. Author tour. (Jan.)
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Wayne Koestenbaum, Author Ballantine Books $14 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-43460-9
According to Koestenbaum, culture is all around us: in movie magazines, paparazzi, Robert Mapplethorpe's photos, Princess Di's dresses and, of course, Liz Taylor. After deconstructing gay men and opera (The Queen's Throat) and prominent first ladies
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Wayne Koestenbaum, Author Persea Books $17.95 (79p) ISBN 978-0-89255-154-5
In the title poem and centerpiece of this debut collection, 1989 ``Discovery''/ Nation poetry award co-winner Koestenbaum writes, ``Mired in low culture, / I was aching to reach the high.''41 But it is precisely the low that allows him to exult in...
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Wayne Koestenbaum, Author Poseidon Press $21.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-75457-0
Koestenbaum, who is gay and teaches English at Yale, calls himself an ``opera queen'' because he is addicted to opera, fetishizes records, tries to befriend divas and keeps lists of his opera ``highs.'' A literate amalgam of speculation, gossip,...
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Wayne Koestenbaum, Author Persea Books $22.95 (120p) ISBN 978-0-89255-200-9
Koestenbaum's ( Ode to Anna Moffo ) second volume of poetry reads like a catalogue of immediacy, of mystical and erotic ecstasy so emotionally charged that one cannot quite call it confessional--the energy gathered into these poems creates a voice...
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Wayne Koestenbaum, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $21 (291p) ISBN 978-0-374-28446-6
The same kind of serious play that distinguished Koestenbaum's earlier book, The Queen's Throat, a highly regarded study of opera and homosexuality, shapes the Yale English professor's scrutiny of the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis--and, more...
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Wayne Koestenbaum. Picador, $14 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-42922-5
The genre-busting poet and critic Koestenbaum (The Queen's Throat) riffs on humiliation, tracing its relationship with art, desire, the body, and in the construction of celebrities for public consumption. In fragments that recall Roland Barthes's...
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Wayne Koestenbaum. Univ. of California, $70 (336 pages) ISBN 978-0-520-26900-2
"Long ago, someone told Harpo to shut up"—but why did he listen? In this exhaustive critical study, Koestenbaum (Humiliation) looks with a sharp eye at the silent Marx Brother from every angle in an attempt to figure out what Harpo meant to say, and
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Wayne Koestenbaum. Turtle Point (Consortium, dist.), $10.50 (126p) ISBN 978-1-933527-60-4
In his sixth book of poems, Koestenbaum takes a hilarious and dirty look at the underbelly of culture in America in poems that are raunchy, mean, darkly funny, and a joy to read. Flirting, and often going to bed, with nonsense, these poems, many set
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Wayne Koestenbaum. Nightboat (UPNE, dist.), $17.95 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-937658-40-3
This important 18th book from poet and cultural critic Koestenbaum (My 1980s and Other Essays) is not a radical departure from earlier work, but it is a departure in technique. Written over the course of a year, the book looks and feels like the cut-
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Wayne Koestenbaum. Nightboat, $18.95 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-937658-77-9
Prolific cross-genre author Koestenbaum attempts to “assemble an/ entire life from found/ scraps” in this sequel to 2015’s The Pink Trance Notebooks. The stream-of-consciousness form, composed of many very short poems, continues here, congealing...
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Wayne Koestenbaum. Nightboat, $19.95 trade paper (496p) ISBN 978-1-64362-115-9
The 22nd book from artist and writer Koestenbaum (Blue Stranger with Mosaic Background) distills four years of Koestenbaum's trance notebooks into a puzzling series of vignettes full of idiosyncratic details and questions, and references to painting.
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