Author: Gil Cuadros
Publisher: City Lights
1994
“An unsparing account of devastation and empowerment in the age of AIDS. From the body’s first mysterious eroticism to its final humiliation and pain, Gil Cuadros gives voice to both the beauty and sorrow of our common fate. His writing cuts like a double-edged sword—at times artful and sharp, at times unfiltered and raw. This is an awesome and haunting book.” —David Trinidad
“The poems and stories in City of God are as dire as they are beautiful, and sharp as a blow to the body.” —Bernard Cooper
“I accuse Gil Cuadros of literary seduction in the nth degree. He makes me read on when I want to cry.” —Wanda Coleman