DHALGREN is Delany’s 11 th book and his most popular novel.
In 2002, the author was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. Delany was a published science fiction author by the age of 20. All three of them promise you a sense of inner worth and meaning, and spend a lot of time telling you about the suffering you have to go through to achieve it.” –from Dhalgren Unafraid of courting controversy regarding race, gender, and sexuality, DHALGREN still manages to fascinate and perplex readers four decades after its first publication. I believe its ‘riddle’ was never meant to be ‘solved.’” –from William Gibson’s Foreword I have sometimes felt that I partially understood it, or that I was nearing the verge of understanding it… Dhalgren is not there to be finally understood. “The poems…are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing… All I have been left is the exhausting habit of trying to tack up the slack in my life with words.” –from Dhalgren “I have never understood it. Often compared to the works of James Joyce, DHALGREN has been brought to life by Golden Voice Stefan Rudnicki in all its complicated glory. These words have all been used to describe DHALGREN since its initial release in 1975. “800 epic pages of gorgeous, profound, clumsy, rambling, violent, randy, visionary, goofy, postapocalyptic sci-fi prose poetry.” –Sam Anderson describes Dhalgren in New York Books
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