Camp Marmalade Author:Wayne Koestenbaum Camp Marmalade takes the freedoms of trance utterance?unfettered verbal association, explicit auto-ethnography, erotic bricolage?and applies a more stringent sense of time-as-emergency to this liberation-oriented poetic method. Part diary, part collage, part textbook for a new School of Impulse, Camp Marmalade assembles a perverse and giddy cult... more »ural archive, a Ferris wheel of aphorisms, depicting a queer body amidst a dizzying flow of sensations, dreams, and sex-and-death distillations?whether sugary, fruity, bitter, expired, or freshly jarred.
?Like an impossible love child from a late-night, drunken three-way between Joan Didion, Roland Barthes, and Susan Sontag, Wayne Koestenbaum inherited all their stylistic wonder and laser-beam smarts, but with the added point-blank jolt of sex.??Bruce Hainley, Bidoun« less