Dark reflections
by Samuel R. Delany
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Arnold Hawley, a gay, African-American poet, has lived in NYC for most of his life. Dark Reflections traces Hawley's life in three sections--in reverse order. Part one: Hawley, at 50 years old, wins an award for his sixth book of poems. Part two explores Hawley's unhappy marriage, while the final section recalls his college days. Dark Reflections, moving back and forth in time, creates a meditation on social attitudes, loneliness, and life's triumphs.
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American Science fiction, African American poets, Gay men, Fiction, African americans, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, biographical, LGBTQ novels, Stonewall Book Awards, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, lgbtq+, gay, African American gays, Literary, Gay, Science Fiction, General| Edition | Availability |
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Dark reflections
2008, Carroll & Graf Publishers
in English
- 1st Carrol & Graf ed.
0786719478 9780786719471
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This Stonewall Book Award-winning novel traces the life and unrealized dreams of Arnold Hawley, a homosexual African-American poet. Albert's poetry ultimately meets with modest acclaim but only after decades of striving. Romance and friendship are likewise elusive, despite an impulsive marriage to a stranger. His outsider status — black, gay, and a poet — compounds his struggles to create art, to find a readership, and to lead a meaningful existence.
Beautifully written in reverse chronological order, the story opens with Albert's lonely old age and ventures back in time to his arrival in New York City of the 1950s. A meditation on isolation and sexual repression, Dark Reflections also offers an acerbic look at the literary world and the frustrations intrinsic to artistic life.
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