Since I Laid My Burden Down by Burnell Brontez (English) Paperback Book

Description: Since I Laid My Burden Down by Burnell Brontez Indie artist and punk queen Brontez Purnells long-awaited novel is an uninhibited exploration of growing up gay in 1980s Alabama. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description DeShawn lives a high, creative, and promiscuous life in San Francisco. But when hes called back to his cramped Southern hometown for his uncles funeral, he s hit by flashbacks of handsome, doomed neighbors and sweltering Sunday services. Amidst prickly reminders of his childhood, DeShawn ponders family, church, and the men in his life, prompting the question: Who deserves love? A raw, funny, and uninhibited stumble down memory lane, Purnells debut novel explores how one mans early sexual and artistic escapades grow into a life. Author Biography Brontez Purnell has been publishing, performing, and curating in the Bay Area for over ten years. He is author of the cult zine Fag School, frontman for his band The Younger Lovers, and founder and choreographer of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. Formerly a dancer with Gravy Train!!!, a queer electro indie band that gained national prominence in the mid-2000s, Purnells other prominent artistic collaborations include his supporting role in the queer independent feature film, "I Want Your Love" (Dir. Travis Mathews, 2012).He was a guest curator for the Berkeley Art Museums L@TE program in 2012, awarded an invitation to the 2012 Radar Lab queer arts summer residency, honored by Out Magazines 2012 Hot 100 List and 2013 Most Eligible Bachelors List, and most recently won the 2014 SF Bay Guardians Goldie for Performance/Music. His previous books include one graphic novel (with illustrator Janelle Hessig) The Cruising Diaries (Gimme Action), and a novella Johnny Would You Love Me (if My Dick Were Bigger) (Rudos and Rubes). Review "More layered insight than the page count should allow." --MTV News "A rich tapestry of intense character study." --Art in America magazine "One of the most unflinching and bone-true things youll read all year." --Fiction Advocate "An antidote to the rigamarole of gay lit." --Mask magazine "A complex. . .look at one mans experience of being black, queer, smart, soft, tough, artistic, and constantly in motion between rural and urban cultures." --Kirkus Reviews "Performance artist Purnell beautifully captures a personality through introspection and memory in this slim novel. . . . a compelling portrait of a particular disaffected kind of gay youth caught between religion, culture, and desire." --Publishers Weekly "Its a true novel, chaptered, and bound, that not only holds its own as queer literature, with its unapologetically misanthropic narrative, but also expands upon it." --San Francisco Chronicle "Slim yet potently realized, with a lot to ponder." --The Bay Area Reporter "An artist of many talents, from writing to dance, Purnell shows in his debut novel a strong control of language coupled with a willingness to take risks." --Rain Taxi "Told like a punk rock Capote, this story of returning home has personality for days."--BKLYN BookMatch: Our 50 Favorite Books from 2017 "This is the book you fall asleep reading and wake up excited to get back to. A Cult Masterpiece with so many memorable characters and phrases youll want to grab strangers and read paragraphs to them." --Kathleen Hanna "I have always admired Brontez Purnells writing, and this novel is his greatest achievement yet. Purnell is never careful, never evasive. He hits you with honesty, passion, painful humor and never stops." --Mike Albo, author of Hornitio "Brontez Purnell is foul-mouthed and evil. Be warned: this book will make you cackle out loud like youve got the Devil inside you then it will break your heart. Be careful where you read it. BUT DO READ IT." --Justin Vivian Bond "Since I Laid My Burden Down is a dance between grit and eloquence. With epic detail and crude truth, Brontez Purnell reminds us that the lessons of survival and love are learned through lifes most fucked-up circumstances. Building bridges between tradition, ancestry, Southern punk, blackness and queerness, Brontez has written a story that helps us laugh, grieve, and breathe." --Cristy C. Road, author of Spit and Passion "Since I Laid My Burden Down has a fearless (sometimes reckless) humor as Brontez Purnell interrogates what it means to be black, male, queer; a son, an uncle, a lover; Southern, punk, and human. An emotional tightrope walk of a book and an important American story rarely, if ever, told." --Michelle Tea, author of Black Wave Long Description DeShawn lives a high, creative, and promiscuous life in San Francisco. But when hes called back to his cramped Southern hometown for his uncles funeral, he s hit by flashbacks of handsome, doomed neighbors and sweltering Sunday services. Amidst prickly reminders of his childhood, DeShawn ponders family, church, and the men in his life, prompting the question: Who deserves love? A raw, funny, and uninhibited stumble down memory lane, Purnells debut novel explores how one mans early sexual and artistic escapades grow into a life. Review Quote "More layered insight than the page count should allow." --MTV News "A rich tapestry of intense character study." --Art in America magazine "One of the most unflinching and bone-true things youll read all year." --Fiction Advocate "An antidote to the rigamarole of gay lit." --Mask magazine "A complex. . .look at one mans experience of being black, queer, smart, soft, tough, artistic, and constantly in motion between rural and urban cultures." --Kirkus Reviews "Performance artist Purnell beautifully captures a personality through introspection and memory in this slim novel. . . . a compelling portrait of a particular disaffected kind of gay youth caught between religion, culture, and desire." --Publishers Weekly "This is the book you fall asleep reading and wake up excited to get back to. A Cult Masterpiece with so many memorable characters and phrases youll want to grab strangers and read paragraphs to them." --Kathleen Hanna "I have always admired Brontez Purnells writing, and this novel is his greatest achievement yet. Purnell is never careful, never evasive. He hits you with honesty, passion, painful humor and never stops." --Mike Albo, author of Hornitio "Brontez Purnell is foul-mouthed and evil. Be warned: this book will make you cackle out loud like youve got the Devil inside you then it will break your heart. Be careful where you read it. BUT DO READ IT." --Justin Vivian Bond "Since I Laid My Burden Down is a dance between grit and eloquence. With epic detail and crude truth, Brontez Purnell reminds us that the lessons of survival and love are learned through lifes most fucked-up circumstances. Building bridges between tradition, ancestry, Southern punk, blackness and queerness, Brontez has written a story that helps us laugh, grieve, and breathe." --Cristy C. Road, author of Spit and Passion "Since I Laid My Burden Down has a fearless (sometimes reckless) humor as Brontez Purnell interrogates what it means to be black, male, queer; a son, an uncle, a lover; Southern, punk, and human. An emotional tightrope walk of a book and an important American story rarely, if ever, told." --Michelle Tea, author of Black Wave Competing Titles Lost Boi Sassafras Lowrey 9781551525815 16.95 Arsenal Pulp Press 4/28/15 Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 9781551526003 18.95 Arsenal Pulp Press 11/3/15 Zipper Mouth Laurie Weeks 9781558617483 14.95 The Feminist Press at CUNY 10/1/11 Beijing Comrades Bei Tong 9781558619074 16.95 The Feminist Press at CUNY 3/15/16 God in Pink Hasan Namir 9781551526065 15.95 Arsenal Pulp Press 11/17/15 Guapa Saleem Haddad 9781590517697 16.95 Other Press 3/8/16 Description for Sales People Since I Laid My Burden Down is the second book in the Feminist Press s new imprint, Amethyst Editions. Brontez Purnell is a multi-disciplinary artist with solid fanbase. He regularly receives press attention for his project ARCs available in November 2016 for a national print and online media galley mailing, as well as to select US bookstores 7-city US bookstore tour planned, with stops in cities, such as, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, CA; Boston, and M Praise-Brontez Purnell takes on both the liberating and crippling potential of religion, of family, of sex and love, an Details ISBN1558614311 Author Burnell Brontez Pages 140 Year 2017 ISBN-10 1558614311 ISBN-13 9781558614314 Format Paperback Publication Date 2017-06-13 Language English DEWEY 813.6 Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New York Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States NZ Release Date 2017-06-13 US Release Date 2017-06-13 UK Release Date 2017-06-13 Publisher Feminist Press at The City University of New York Audience General AU Release Date 2017-06-12 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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