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*Beloved poet: The author, Kevin Killian, was in community with the likes of Eileen Myles, Peter Gizzi, and Gary Indiana.
*Follows the success of Selected Amazon Reviews: The author's collection of Amazon reviews was wildly successful, and received reviews in The New Yorker and The Washington Post.
*Posthumous legacy: The author wrote more than a dozen volumes of poetry, fiction, drama, and scholarship in his lifetime, and was an influential part of San Francisco's New Narrative circle. His legacy is preserved here in the first collection of his works.
*A critical document for the LGBTQ community: The author was an important figure in the queer community, a friend and mentor to many.

Kevin Killian was a San Francisco–based poet, novelist, playwright, and art writer. Recent books include the poetry collections Tony Greene Era (2017) and Tweaky Village (2014). He is the coauthor of Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance (1998). With Dodie Bellamy, he coedited Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing, 1977–1997 (2017).