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Being the booklog of Glenn Ingersoll, poet, hunger manager, and cloud watcher, in which he returns via hoarded documents to a lot of old books he barely remembers and tries to figure out what they did to him.
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They asked for you
Douglas Messerli founded Sun & Moon Press and its successor, Green Integer. An excerpt from his manuscript “Nine Nights in New York” appears in Golden Handcuffs Review, v.1 no. 8. There are no dat...
“’I have a cousin who’s a lesbian. Do you think I could use that?’
from the diary: “Friday 11/11/88“I went to a gay youth group meeting in Westminster. And it was pleasant enough, altho’ I wish it’d had some kind of focus or direction. We were all just s’po...
“pulled her from the arms of the mime”
from the diary: “Fried egg [Friday] 10/28/88”Julie & I had planned to take a ferry & train back to London and hadn’t realized our tickets only allowed us on the 9:30am. We’d missed that. There...
Homomonument
from the diary: “Thursday 10/27/88”In Amsterdam I found “the Gay Center [where] I saw awhile, met another Californian. Jack. He’s 23, also – wait. I’m 22, aren’t I? I said I was 23. I wi...
Brussels
from the diary: “Tuesday 10/25/88“Tonight while wearing out my legs I came upon a tattoo parlor. Closed. But in the window a small black & white cat, its eyes wide, wide. I leaned down and held my...
Dream
from the diary: “Friday 10/21/88“Woke from a dream about [English professor]. I dreamt that I was in a room, maybe a classroom, maybe on the tube, and I was talking to a friend on the other side o...
planning the midterm trip
from the diary: “Friday Oct 14, 1988Julie and I “were in Waterstone’s Book Store looking at guidebooks and she picks up … The Complete Guide to Amsterdam for Gay Men and Lesbians. She notices ...
Gay Guide to London
from the diary: “Saturday 10/8/88 day 31”I met the girls at Hamley’s, the giant toy store. Afterward Shawn and I found a park where we could throw her new boomerang. “Shawn got pretty good. I ...
Speaker’s Corner, part II
from the diary: “Wednesday 9/28/88 day 21“While at Speaker’s Corner Sunday [9/25] I spoke with a couple or three older gay men – one of whom enlightened me on a little ‘having fun’ etiquet...
Pride & Prejudice & Piano
from the diary: “Tuesday 9/27/88 day 20“In Kengsinton Library at lunchtime … woman on violin, man at piano, classical concert. Nice accompaniment to Pride & Prejudice.”...
The family, part II
from the diary: “9/23/88 Friday“Initial interest in me from Robert & Maria has passed. They now largely ignore me, which makes me feel lonely. As soon as they get home it’s turn on the TV, or, i...
The family
I’d thought the father was a Member of Parliament. Turns out, no. “Robert is a member of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council – or whatever the official title is. I plucked up eno...
lawn bowling
from the diary: “9/11/88 Sunday“Coming back along Hyde Park … I strolled over to watch grass bowling or whatever it’s called. While i was standing next the green an older couple, the man a typ...
“Sometimes I get tired of hearing myself talk.”
from the diary: “Wednesday 8/3/88“My last date with Scott – last Thurs. was bust. He’d had some great revelation of how he’d been acting immature and irresponsible and had decided he’d all...
sensational art by Salvador Dali?
from the diary: 'Tuesday 7/28/87'On the bus home ' Kim ' told me a story about Salvador Dali ' Dali had thrown a dinner party for a bunch of [titled nobility] ' [A]fterward he led them into the ballro...
'my gangly ill-formed contraption'
from the diary: 'Wednesday 6/24/87'This morning in swimming we learned sidestroke with scissor kick. I kind of got the hang of it till we were doing [the] lifesaving technique of dragging [a] person t...