Gluck achieves the difficult art of integrating unabashed (gay) erotic writing into an intelligent non-pornographic narrative."-Ian Young

Elements of a Coffee Service

Literature & Fiction

Glück, Robert

United States

Grey Fox Press

In this classic of post-modern gay fiction, Glück explores the culture of the early 1980s through the exploration of his own life as fiction. "Robert Glück has found a new way of making fiction passionate. This novel is a strange, exhilarating love story rich with invention and observation."--Edmund White

Jack the Modernist

Gay Pr of New York

Reader

Poetry

Lapis Pr

Fiction. Gay and Lesbian Studies. The stories in DENNY SMITH use events in the life of Robert Gluck as a ground for the expansion of empathy and intellect. These events include burglary, sex, conversation, reading, humiliation, child raising, and porn. Gluck's previous books include MARGERY KEMPE and JACK THE MODERNIST, both newly available from SPD. "Flaubert says in a letter to Louise Colet that good prose should be stuffed with things. This is good prose indeed, filled with shells and duck meat and sunlight and flesh and gardening tools and sperm..."--Samuel R. Delany.

Denny Smith (Stories)

History & Criticism

Clear Cut Press

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Limited Edition. In this special series of eight perfect-bound books, each book is an anthology and a conversation between the guest curator and the elder(s) she hosts. In ELDERS SERIES #2, Erica Kaufman and Rachel Levitsky host Robert Glück and Sarah Schulman.Belladonna* has featured over 150 writers of wildly diverse age and origin, writers who work in conversation and collaboration within and between multiple forms, languages, and critical fields. 2009 marked the tenth anniversary of their mission to promote the work of women writers who are adventurous, experimental, politically involved, multi-form, multicultural, multi-gendered, impossible to define, delicious to talk about, unpredictable, and dangerous with language. As performance and as printed text, the work collects, gathers over time and space, and forms a kind of conversation about the feminist avant garde: what it is and how it comes to be. The anniversary ELDERS SERIES is a continuation of this conversation, which highlights the fact of influence and continuity of the ideas, poetics, and concerns we circle through.

Elders Series #2 (Elders, 2)

Schulman, Sarah

Levitsky, Rachel

Kaufman, Erica

Belladonna*

Fiction. LGBT Studies. This collection of stories by Robert Glück was originally published in 1982 in San Francisco by Four Seasons Foundation under the title ELEMENTS OF A COFFEE SERVICE."Bob's fiction is actually quite friendly yet he cuts it with a knife. Bob's gift to the history of letters I think is the uncanniness of his flow. He pulls down the page like a shade, it's masterful what he does. His page is more filled with light than words, really. More filled with temperature too."—Eileen Myles, from the preface to ELEMENTS

Elements

Ithuriel's Spear

Poetry. Art. Collaboration. About her collaboration with Robert Glück, Kathleen Fraser writes, "IN COMMEMORATION OF THE VISIT OF FOREIGN COMMERCIAL REPRESENTATIVES TO JAPAN, 1947 is a small picture book assembled as a memento of Japan's finest tourist sites, to be given to their new allies (and recent adversaries). I discovered the book when my friend Bob Glück sent me to an Asian antique store, where he thought I might find 'little things' for Christmas gifts. Seeing the book in the $1 box, I bought a copy and began to write a poem sequence based on each of the photos and their captions, not knowing that Bob had also bought this book and was writing his own version from the same collection of pictures." Featuring color reproductions of the entire postcard book.

In Commemoration of the Visit

FRASER, Kathleen

Further Other Book Works

Taken as a whole, the short features in On The Spirit Trail: One Man’s Journey Into Nature &amp; Art are powerful, moving, utterly honest and provocative. On page one in Nature readers enter the author’s journey through Yosemite’s awe-inspiring wilderness, move on to the Hoh Rainforest’s shabby elegance, then to big game fishing in the torrential Gulf Stream off North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Honoring the maternal instincts of bald eagles, the magical powers of honeybees, and the mysterious mystical fish anadromous salmonid readers then enter Machu Pichu and the way of the Inca. Part travelogue, part spiritual quest, Robert Gluck’s writings are for all ages who want to experience the joys and details of Mother Nature but also express them in their art. Part II, Art, brings Spirit Trail readers into the studios and personal lives of artists famous and unknown. From Caldecott Award winning children’s book illustrator Richard Egielski to 60’s iconic singer-songwriter-activist Peter Yarrow, the journey here ends with one longing to be part of the world of creative expression.

On The Spirit Trail: One Man's Journey Into Nature & Art

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The collected essays of the cofounder of the New Narrative movement, on theory, identity, poetry, and muses from Kathy Acker to Georges Bataille.I read and wrote to invoke what seemed impossible―relation itself―in order to take part in a world that ceaselessly makes itself up, to “wake up” to the world, to recognize the world, to be convinced that the world exists, to take revenge on the world for not existing.―from Communal NudeSince cofounding San Francisco's influential New Narrative circle in 1979, Robert Glück has been one of America's finest prose stylists of innovative fiction, bending narrative into the service of autobiography, politics, and gay writing. This collection brings together for the first time Glück's nonfiction, a revelatory body of work that anchors his writing practice. Glück's essays explore the ways that storytelling and selfhood are mutually embedded cultural forms, cohering a fractured social reality where generating narrative means generating identity means generating community. “I'd laugh at (make art from) any version of self,” Glück writes, “I write about these forms―that are myself―to dispense with them, to demonstrate how they disintegrate before the world, the body.” For any body―or text―to know itself, it must first see how it sees the world, and understand itself as writing.Glück's essays affirm this radical narratorial precept in rich spirals of reading, self-reflection, anecdote, escapade, and “metatext.” These texts span the author's career and his creative affinities―from lost manifestos theorizing the poetics of New Narrative; to encomia for literary and philosophic muses (Kathy Acker, the HOW(ever) poets, Frank O'Hara, Georges Bataille, and others); to narrative journalism, book reviews, criticism, and public talks. Many of the texts are culled from obscure little magazines and ephemeral online sources; others have never been published. As lucid as story, as lush as theory, and as irresistible as gossip, Glück's essays are the quintessence of New Narrative theory in practice.

Communal Nude: Collected Essays (Semiotext(e) / Active Agents)

Essays & Correspondence

Semiotext[e]

Lust, religious zeal, and heartache come together in this provocative novel about two infatuations, one between a man and his young lover in the late 20th century and another between a 15th-century maiden and Jesus Christ. First published in 1994, Robert Glück’s Margery Kempe is one of the most provocative, poignant, and inventive American novels of the last quarter century. The book tells two stories of romantic obsession. One, based on the first autobiography in English, the medieval Book of Margery Kempe, is about a fifteenth-century woman from East Anglia, a visionary, a troublemaker, a pilgrim to the Holy Land, and an aspiring saint, and her love affair with Jesus. It is complicated. The other is about the author’s own love for an alluring and elusive young American, L. It is complicated. Between these two Margery Kempe, the novel, emerges as an unprecedented exploration of desire, devotion, abjection, and sexual obsession in the form of a novel like no other novel. Robert Glück’s masterpiece bears comparison with the finest work of such writers as Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus. This edition includes an essay by Glück about the creation of the booktitled "My Margery, Margery's Bob."

Margery Kempe (New York Review Books Classics)

NYRB Classics

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