the flighty young beauty Rosamond and the old
terror was in the very fabric of the city
Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate
technology and mass migration all collide with ever-hardening borders
encountering the city's wildlife in the most unexpected places
Close to the Knives Anton Chekhov the flighty young beauty RosamondFrom the author's violent childhood in suburbia to eventual homelessness on the streets and piers of New York City, to recognition as one of the most provocative artists of his generation Close to the Knives is his powerful and iconoclastic memoir. Street life, drugs, art and nature, family, AIDS, politics, friendship and acceptance: Wojnarowicz challenges us to examine our lives politically, socially, emotionally, and aesthetically.