$6.99
Flying On Invisible Wings
by Félix Garmendía
EPUB ebook | $6.99
Flying on Invisible Wings narrates Félix Garmendía’s life as a gay activist, poet, and storyteller in the face of illness and intolerance. Garmendía is an HIV+ survivor and now is disabled due to Inclusion Body Myositis. His life was carved around the experiences of surviving his early years in conservative Catholic Puerto Rico. New York City has been his fiercely loved home since 1988.
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Flying On Invisible Wings
by Félix Garmendía
EPUB ebook | $6.99
Small town boy journeys from Ponce, Puerto Rico to Manhattan, gay, confused, frightened, and trying to find where he will fit in and be happy. He finds companionship, happiness, and his proud gay identity in the Big City. But he also finds out he has HIV, almost dies, gets almost well, then meets another illness — Inclusion Body Myositis. Yet in the same year he becomes wheelchair-bound, he rediscovers an old love: writing poetry. He begins to write. He writes more. He becomes adept. His poetry soars. “This, he says, “is what I should have been doing all along.”
As you read the poems of Félix Garmendía, you will say to yourself, “This is what I should have been reading all along.” You will discern influences from Whitman, from Neruda, and also from the art of Frida Kahlo, with whom Felix feels a particularly strong kinship as a disabled artist. After all, he says, they both fly on invisible wings.
