One Night A Wildness
or: Twenty-Eight Textures In The Glowing Dark
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‘One Night A Wildness’ takes the reader on a journey, on the one hand to the city of Glasgow, on the other into the lyrical heart of sexual ecstasy with a complete stranger in a gay bathhouse, elevating the very thing that mainstream life insists that we, as gay people, should not do – enjoy the sex we so often have…
"...let me sing:
outline the incandescence
of a single night..."
Finding beauty and profound meaning in both the deep history of the landscapes from which the city emerged, and the anonymous intimacies of an encounter worlds away from endless heteronormative woundings, this longform poem recalls and celebrates Homo Riot’s motto that ‘every time we fuck we win’…
"...soaring rhythms fast and frantic,
slow and loving, fearless..."
In a society which still insists that gay sex must be secret, furtive, hidden, then here the wonder of an eternal moment opens up like a flower, where lust, hyperactivity, and the deliciousness of body contact fuse into a ‘becoming’, a transformation into earth and memory, a release into something passionately Queer…
"...one night, this Act of Will
this wildness, with you..."
Details
- Publication Date
- Jul 31, 2025
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781326247928
- Category
- Poetry
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Bruce Rimell
Specifications
- Pages
- 52
- Binding Type
- Paperback Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- A5 (5.83 x 8.27 in / 148 x 210 mm)
Keywords
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