Special Subcommittee (Paperback)

Paperback. On one level, Special Subcommittee is an experimental family history of Samuel Solomon's communist, labour-organiser grandparents in McCarthyist America, told through the sterile language of redacted FBI files and transcripts of congressional hearings. Against these subcommittees of repression, he then invents an ardent and committed lyric of queer communist relation revolving around his chosen family: his friends, lovers, and political comrades. The combination is wild, radical, and subversive. Lyrics of commitment and documents of committees. Communism and queers, jokes and doggerel, rants, and at least one threesome. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.