# Michael Bronski Co-Edits Collected Poems of Walta Borawski December 01, 2022 WGS Professor [Michael Bronski](/people/michael-bronski) co-edited *[Invisible History: The Collected Poems of Walta Borawski](https://rebelsatori.com/product/invisible-history/).* This volume is the inaugural title in Rebel Satori Press' imprint, The Library of Homosexual Congress, which is dedicated to to preserving and promoting provocative works of gay literature, with a focus on the AIDS crisis. Walta Borawski (1947 - 1994) was a well-known and widely published poet active in the Boston and national poetry scenes during the post-Stonewall era. He worked with radical political newspapers and collectives such as *Fag Rag* and *Gay Community News*. His first collection of poetry, *Sexually Dangerous Poet* (1984), was published by the Good Gay Poets collective, while his second, *Lingering in a Silk Shirt* (1994), appeared from Fag Rag Books. Posthumously, his work has appeared in multiple publications, including *The James White Review*, which included a feature on Borawski in its Summer 2001 issue and *Persistent Voices: Poetry by Writers Lost to AIDS* (2009), edited by Philip Clark and David Groff. Borawski's poems range from searing political commentary concerning the history and social status of gay men to sharp, witty and steadfastly defiant work on love and death during the height of the AIDS epidemic. Walta Borawski met his partner, Michael Bronski in 1975 and they were together until he died on February 9th, 1994 from AIDS-related complications. Michael Bronski is Professor of the Practice in Media and Activism in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. He has been involved with LGBT politics since 1969 as an activist, organizer, writer, publisher, editor, and independent scholar. Reviews "The poems are truthful, snappy, plenty of low life & local detail, sparky mind of the young poet sassing & observing his environment, gay & grim, still romantic. Who doesn't love romance? Lots of intelligence in the line, mindful measure of spoken speech music." -Allen Ginsberg "This collection of plainspoken, verbal snapshots suggests an autobiographical photo album. Here is one gay man's life: memories of high school, all kinds of lust, domestic love, the company of pets, the pleasures of music, books and movies, as well as anger, grief, illness and death. Walta Borawski could be as witty and sly as Frank O'Hara, but he was wiser, more passionate, naked and liberated. The poems he left behind are a gift. Philip Clark and Michael Bronski have done an invaluable job bringing his work together and sharing it with us." -Christopher Bram, author of *Gods and Monsters and Eminent Outlaws: Gay Writers Who Changed America* We congratulate Professor Bronski on this new publication! See also:- [ Recent news ](/news-items/recent-news) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)