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City of God | Gil Cuadros
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Gil Cuadros published stories and poems in Indivisible, High Risk 2, and Blood Whispers. His work is also on the compact disc, Verdict and the Violence: Poet's Response to the LA Uprising. He was awarded the 1991 Brody Literature Fellowship, and was...
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This collection, half stories and half poems, was beautiful, heartbreaking, and brilliant.
Cuadros started writing after being diagnosed with HIV in 1987. His writing has a raw edge. There is a touch of mysticism and a poetic quality in the stories, while his prose poems have more of a storyline at times. Cuadros blurs the lines, exploring gender roles in Mexican-American culture and the progression of HIV in his partner and then himself. ⬇️

psalva I cried several times reading this short collection, all the more because I know this was all Cuadros wrote before his death in 1996, at the age of 34. (Content warning for death, dying, and childhood sexual abuse.) (edited) 2y
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