Water from a Bucket: A Diary 1948-1957

"Scintillating." —Edmund White

"A furtive treasure of the American avant-garde." —Publishers Weekly

“A remarkably realized work of art.” —Matthew Stadler

This artist's artist and poet's poet has had a remarkably energetic, fecund and varied existence. By turns bizarre and sweetly domestic, this fractured, infinitely interesting diary begins with his father's illness and ends with the death of his lover Pavel Tchelitchev, the Russian painter with whom he lived for 23 years. Ranging from New Yo...