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At the risk of sounding cynical, I should have known better when the NYTimes Book Review magazine described Dale Peck's latest book as "engaging." This rambling mess is anything but. Not sure what the subtitle "Coming of Age in the Age of AIDS" has to do with the opening of the book which is a tediously written account of serial murders, and the authorities reluctance to investigate them as an example of the rampant institutional homophobia of the day, a point the author could have made in a couple of sentences. Peck's story is so poorly written that I struggled to get through it. An extremely disappointing read on what could have been a poignant memoir of an incredibly tragic time in America & the world.
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Dale Peck's Visions and Revisions is part memoir and part historical and cultural analysis written in a fierce, tight and poetic style that brought me right back to those horrible and life-changing days before protease inhibitors. While not a full history of ACT UP it gives an excellent sense of what it was like to organize when it was a matter of life and death and there was nothing to lose. While sometimes it seems as if it was so long ago and that the communities that was created, especially in large cities, have moved on, I still see remnants of it in #BlackLivesMatter or in Occupy Wall Street (and of course the biggest debt also goes to the Civil Rights movement) or in the organizing in the Trans community. I love Peck's bold style and his ability to write about his sexuality in a raw and unapologetic manner and his rage at a government that did not care whether gay people lived or died. The last part of the book "13 Ecstasies of the Soul" knocked me flat out (and I agree with the reviewer who said it reminded him of "Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog) and I confess I wept and then began reading the book again. Thank you Edelweiss for allowing me to review this book for an honest opinion.
...and I know that's a weird digression, but geography is often as much of our DNA as issues of religion, race, orientation. Then again, I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s and 80s, and can tell you that the gay culture was far more alien a planet to me, then, than it is to many kids growing up in the "heartland" today. Dale Peck readily acknowledges in a few ways in his latest book that being very much of that - okay for him 1980s and 90s generation, very much colored his views, and make him a bit of an alien even to the generations of gay humans and/or activists that have followed.I wouldn't go so far as to suggest that this realization has mellowed him. There are places in this book that flashed a message to me very much like a billboard: not for you. I'm NOT writing this book, for you. High up on the list of those messages would be the sexual vignettes and musings on "Christian hetero-normative moral standards etc. etc." and honestly, I can't find the exact quote but can at least paraphrase the jargon, in my sleep. (And always find the tie in between monogamy as an ideal and religion to be a bit beside the point - religion was not a thing created in isolation, and monogamy is very much about placating some biological imperatives in a way that allowed heterosexual culture to evolve without us killing each other quite so often. Any post-civilization-building piety or hypocrisy is kind of beside the point, where one should be addressing the actual reasons for things and not the rationalizations. But this is too long a parenthetical digression.)Oh, yes, I was talking about exclusion. I get a vague notion that Peck, while not necessarily wanting me (the collective straight suburban bourgeois "me") to think he gives a toss whether I read this book or not, is spurred to do and say this or that to try to warn me off. The sex is - icky, in a basic "I am not prurient/voyeuristic in quite this way, sense." It did not have me running for my smelling salts any more than reading excerpts from "50 Shades of Gray" did. To Peck's credit, it also didn't elicit anything like the same level of snickering.And it occurs to me that it's a somewhat happy thing that I even can be so unexpectedly struck today by the "old school" underlying hostility towards heteronormative bleep bleep blurp which in no small part fuels Peck's creative work. There's a great passage in this book where Peck explicates his basic contempt for columnist Andrew Sullivan, who in 1996 heralded "The End of AIDS", when what Sullivan clearly, *really* meant was "the end of AIDS as an inevitable death sentence for my particular white, male, relatively affluent, first world peer group, for now, assuming no major setback such as virus adaptation/drug resistance getting ahead of pharmaceutical development."That Sullivan could hardly see beyond an artificial construct of "the gay plague" is ostensibly the main source of Peck's outrage. However, the author goes beyond that issue to deplore Sullivan's politics and acceptance of mainstream heterosexual values like monogamy. He clearly resents Sullivan's sense of shame as something brushing too close to a owning of collective moral culpability for a random, opportunistic virus. It's a nice rewind on a piece of history too often oversimplified -- practically anyone with the most casual interest in U.S. social politics at least vaguely perceives how beloved Sullivan is NOT in much of the gay community. But they may have an oversimplified view of how things came to that pass.There are lovely historical nuggets like that throughout "Visions", in between all the bits with the Hot! Gay! Sex! (Some accounts are less porn, really, and more smutty interpretive poetry or sumthin' -- a gay Lord Byron for our age.) There are plenty of moments in this story where I (as intended?) fail to relate, and so am indeed reminded by Peck that although I grew up with him (give or take a decade, in a similarly liberal community with an also highly visible GLBT demographic), I am not "of" him. That's a place to start, but when writing the history of ACT UP! and the gay rights movement, as with the civil rights movement, it's in the discussion of convergence and the meeting of dissimilar minds, that we find true meaning.A disturbing, bad-memories-dredging piece of work that is wildly self-indulgent, stubbornly insular, and even parochial, in a twisted-back-on-itself way. And a likely to rank among the best non-fiction of 2015, notwithstanding.
I'm breaking my "no memoirs" rule again. At the same idea, I'm obeying my rule to read things outside my usual interests, to shake up my rut. I was intrigued by the idea of VISIONS AND REVISIONS, a memoir that focuses on "the second half of the first half of the AIDS epidemic," that is, 1989 to 1996. I'm also familiar with author Dale Peck from SPROUT and a few other novels.As the back of the book says, VISIONS AND REVISIONS started life as discrete essays and articles which have been rewritten and put together. That lack of cohesion is felt. The writing is solid and compelling, but the subject matter often doubles back on itself, sometimes repeating, never going quite as deep as it could if it had a more definitive focus. It bounces from serial killers targeting gay men to criticism of criticism of PWA narratives to musings on past relationships to the fervor of young activists.But many of those sections are very good. Peck's anger and passion are clearly communicated. He's blisteringly critical of those who defang gay narratives, who only accept them if they've been desexed and idealized. And as much as he points to the protease inhibitors and combination therapy of 1996 putting an abrupt stop to AIDS as it was, he's critical of those (especially Andrew Sullivan), that it mostly ended the death sentence for gay middle white men who could afford it. IV drug users, Haitians, African-Americans, and Africans are still dying in massive numbers (especially Africans).While VISIONS AND REVISIONS sometimes doesn't go into as much depth as I like, Peck touches on many places to go next. He names essays and plays and books, he names activists and other influential LGBT people worth looking up. The narratives of the scene are often inseparable from the plague ravaging it.I'm not sure I could've read a longer work in this style, but VISIONS AND REVISIONS is short enough not to outstay its welcome. It's definitely of interest for those who enjoy memoirs or books about LGBT history.
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