This is a webcast of a lecture author Samuel R. Delany held in 2008 at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in conjunction with the exhibition Tetsumi Kudo: Garden of Metamorphosis. Delany is reading from his latest book “Dark Reflections”, an (partly) autobiographical novel about Arnold Hawley, a gay, African-American poet from New York City, whose life is told in reverse in three parts, each dedicated to a certain period.
If you haven’t heard about Delany yet – there’s a little introduction to him by a young colleague called Eric Lorber that follows the first more general introduction.