Theory of Devolution

by David Groff

With blazing wit and a searing language, David Groff writes fiercely of erosion and endurance in this stunning debut collection. At turns fervent and elegiac, dishy and sly, these poems confront the effect of AIDS and HIV on a brotherhood that dealt firsthand with grief and loss and, later, the tenuous prospect of survival. Peopled with the spirits of dead gay men, uncertain lovers, mortal parents, and spectral friends and brothers, Groff's poems...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252070860
• ISBN13: 9780252070860
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.6"