Harmless Medicine
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Harmless Medicine
By (Author) Justin Chin
Manic D Press,U.S.
Manic D Press,U.S.
2nd July 2001
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
811.54
Short-listed for Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Poetry) 2001
Physical Properties
Paperback
142
Width 139mm, Height 215mm
201g
Description
Harmless Medicine is fiercely devoted to the margins of life in the generation after the devastating first wave of the AIDS epidemic. In more than 40 pieces, Chin fearlessly delivers his thoughts on everything from his first exposure to science, to a mail-order fantasy experience, from backroads travel in Asia, to the plight of immigrants in America. His scathingly brutal honesty and sharply honed-humour frame a collection that is profoundly perceptive throughout and startling in its originality.
Reviews
"As a gay Chinese American with a punk, post-modern, and perpetually Impudent attitude, Chin treats his outsider role with relish and aplomb." - Michael Bronski
Author Bio
Justin Chin is the author of Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes and Pranks and Bite Hard. His writings have also been widely anthologised in collections such as The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, American Poetry: The Next Generation, and The World In Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave. He lives in San Francisco with HIV.
