In 1978 and 1979 Wojnarowicz made a series of pictures of a man wearing a paper mask bearing the face of Arthur Rimbaud, the French poet known as much for his fervid verse as for his dramatic life — the instantiation, and perhaps the inventor, of the idea of the young gay hustler of genius.

Presenting a selection of that work, the amply illustrated volume carries an introductory essay by Antonio Sergio Bessa placing the series in context.