The Straits of Messina

"For nearly thirty years, in his fiction and non-fiction, Samuel R. Delaney has explored to the roots various realms of discourse: sociteies, language, sexualities ... and the ever-shifting interpenetrations, transgressions, limitations, and dissolutions that play and replay between them. Now he turns his unflinching critical eye to the most mysterious realm of all: his own life, writing, and soul.":--Dust jacket flap.