Waterfront Journals

David Wojnarowicz gives a voice to America's misfits. It's the late 1970s, and Wojnarowicz is living on the streets, wandering through a vast, decaying America. He has shed his illusions, but he loves the people he meets unwaveringly - the hustlers, priests, junkies, soldiers, truckers, dreamers, runaways, who somehow get by, stranded in bars and hourly hotels, in backyards, on the fringes of society, in the godforsaken side stages of life. Wojnarowicz gives all of them voice and dignity by transforming their encounters into a vivid stream of fictional monologues - these are unfathomable stories, shimmering strangely and disturbingly familiar, about a country on the brink of collapse. With profound honesty and hallucinatory intensity, David Wojnarowicz - the larger-than-life, legendary artist, iconoclast, and activist - tells of people who belong nowhere, of departure and despair, and of harsh beauty where no one would expect to find it.