| Tender Buttons (Green Integer)
| This edition of the legendary classic of 20th-century prose poetry is the second edition since its original publication in 1914 by Claire Marie (Donald Evans). This new Green Integer edition reveals the original form and structure of Stein’s geat work. Stein’s writing is as startlingly fresh as if published last month—or tomorrow. Here objects, food, and rooms come into new perspective in Stein’s wonderfully original language. Everywhere and everything in Tender Buttons is a de-li...More
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| Angels In America Part 1: Millennium Approaches
| The most anticipated new American play of the decade, this brilliant work is an emotional, poetic, political epic in two parts: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika. Spanning the years of the Reagan administration, it weaves the lives of fictional and historical characters into a feverish web of social, political, and sexual revelations.
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| Drag Queen (Fiercest Gay Poetry)
| Poetry of rising from ashes, and being queen even after your kingdom falls apart. This diverse collection of 16 poems focuses on seeing a better future, rebellion, homosexuality, ambitions and dreams. With moments of self-acceptance and sorrow at the thought of what used to be a miserable life. Drag Queen is the debut poetry collection written through the eyes of my alter-ego Hermana Alacran.Includes Poems:"Homo-Sapien""Where Are The Hot Herterosexuals?""Faggots, Queers, but Queens"and "There Is...More
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| Twelve Love Poems to Read Aloud
| For weddings, for anniversaries, for Valentine's Day, for the day you propose or just to reaffirm your love, these 12 short, accessible love poems were written with committed couples in mind, gay or straight. They are not canned, cliched love poems. Rather, the voice is real, "spilling with light". Stars quiver. The speaker notices the sleeping eye that flutters with dream and the glance that declares a knowing love. The poems ask to forget the workaday world, they ask to remember, they ask for ...More
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| One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies
| My name is Ruby This book is about me. It tells the deeply hideous story of what happens when my mother dies and I'm dragged three thousand miles away from my gorgeous boyfriend, Ray, to live in L.A. with my father, who I've never even met because he's such a scumbag that he divorced my mom before I was born. The only way I've ever even seen him is in the movies, since he's this mega-famous actor who's been way too busy trying to win Oscars to even visit me once in...More
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| The Literary Party: Growing Up Gay and Amish in America
| A provocative and eye-opening account of growing up gay and Amish in America. Poet James Schwartz combines a mixture of poetry and short stories to describe family troubles, lost love, religion, and even what it's like to take a horse and buggy to a gay nightclub. The Literary Party is an emotional, touching book with implications that extend to any religion or culture where intolerance is prevalent.
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| Wrestling with God and Men: Homosexuality in the Jewish Tradition
| Wrestling with God and Men is the product of Rabbi Steven Greenberg's ten-year struggle to reconcile his homosexuality with Orthodox Judaism. Employing traditional rabbinic resources, Greenberg presents readers with surprising biblical interpretations of the creation story, the love of David and Jonathan, the destruction of Sodom, and the condemning verses of Leviticus. But Greenberg goes beyond the question of whether homosexuality is biblically acceptable to ask how such relationships can be s...More
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| The Battered Suitcase Winter 2009
| The Battered Suitcase Winter 2009Volume 2, Issue 3 of The Battered Suitcase, a literary journal of intelligent and imaginative prose, poetry and art exploring the human experience. Prose by Thomas Cannon, Karyn Eisler, Valerie O'Riordan, Matt Mok, Brian George, V. Ulea, Robert Wexelblatt, Randy Kohl, David Mohrmann, Martin DiCarlantonio, Anthony R. Pezzula, Elisabeth Hegman, Lora Hilty, Susan Kay Miller, Roland Goity, Maggie Collins, Timoty Raymond, Anthony Bromberg, Andrew Madigan, Andrew Charm...More
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| The Cowboy Poet
| Tyler Sutton can run all he wants from his past, but he’s still got himself to contend with. Dark secret dreams of sexual submission continue to haunt the magazine reporter. The embers of his hidden yearnings burst into a bright flame of reality when Tyler meets Clint Darrow, the cowboy poet. Clint, the foreman on a West Texas bull ranch, hides his dominant sensual nature behind the laconic, quiet persona of a true Texas cowboy. When the pair is thrown together in a search to uncover the culpr...More
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| The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer
| The House That Jack Built collects for the first time the four historic talks given by controversial poet Jack Spicer just before his early death in 1965. These lively and provocative lectures function as a gloss to Spicer's own poetry, a general discourse on poetics, and a cautionary handbook for young poets. This long-awaited document of Spicer's unorthodox poetic vision, what Robin Blaser has called "the practice of outside," is an authoritative edition of an underground classic.Peter Gizzi'...More
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| When the Only Light Is Fire
| Poetry. LGBT Studies. African American Studies. In his debut chapbook of poetry, Saeed Jones walks on the periphery of the South, those places on the outskirts of town, in bars after midnight, and on dangerous backroads where most people keep their heads down or look the other way. Through Texas and Tennessee, Alabama and the riverbeds of the Mississippi, these poems wrap themselves in cloaks of masks and comfort; garments we learn are flammable if we stand too close to flames. D. A. Powell says...More
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| Gay Enough 1&2
| 30 LGB Oriented poems. Gay Enough 1: The anguish of a fourteen year old boy wanting to come out of the closet and the results of doing so. Gay Enough 2 is a brand new collection written as a follow up to the acclaimed poetry collection Gay Enough it is about the struggles and sorrows of LGB youths depression, heartbreak, and fear, however, the collection is written to inspire all youths of any sexual orientation to be wise, strong, and to fight in the face of doubt and intimidation.
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| Deliberate Prose: Selected Essays 1952-1995
| Whether criticizing the American government, protesting the war in Vietnam, or denouncing capitalism, Ginsberg gave voice to the moral conscience of the nation. His personal essays on Jean Genet, Andy Warhol, Philip Glass, and others, give us compelling portraits of his fellow artists. And his views on poetry, free speech, Buddhism, and the Beats reflect the concerns of the postwar American culture he helped shape.Provocative, playful, eloquent, and of the moment, these essays offer a social his...More
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| Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog
| An eighteen-poem cycle on the death of his lover from AIDS emphasizes the power of love and its survival through pain and anger, and the tragedy and magnitude of a terrifying twist of fate and its effect on a generation.
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| Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading (Sexual Cultures Also An Ali Bo)
| Beyond the Nation charts an expansive history of Filipino literature in the U.S., forged within the dual contexts of imperialism and migration, from the early twentieth century into the twenty-first. Martin Joseph Ponce theorizes and enacts a queer diasporic reading practice that attends to the complex crossings of race and nation with gender and sexuality. Tracing the conditions of possibility of Anglophone Filipino literature to U.S. colonialism in the Philippines in the early twentieth centur...More
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| The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade
| Italian novelist, poet, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally killed in Rome in 1975, a macabre end to a career that often explored humanity’s capacity for violence and cruelty. Along with the mystery of his murderer’s identity, Pasolini left behind a controversial but acclaimed oeuvre as well as a final quartet of beguiling projects that signaled a radical change in his aesthetics and view of reality. The Resurrection of the Body is an original and compelling interpretation...More
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| Whitman's Poetry of the Body: Sexuality, Politics, and the Text
| This book combines literary and historical analysis in a study of sexuality in Walt Whitman's work. Informed by his "new historicist" understanding of the construction of literary texts, Jimmie Killingsworth examines the progression of Whitman's poetry and prose by considering the textual history of Leaves of Grass and other works.Killingsworth demonstrates that Whitman's "poetry of the body" derives its radical power from the transformation of conventional attitudes toward sexuality, tr...More
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| Cool Limbo
| Poetry. LGBT Studies. COOL LIMBO is a series of dazzling portraits that are accessible yet complex, hilarious yet poignant, down-to-earth yet ethereal. Like its cover, which features the title poem's sexy 70s chick lounging—stoned—by the pool (as she neglects the water-winged kids she's supposed to be babysitting), the book is the best kind of party—unofficial, unpretentious, and unabashed. And everyone's there "on plastic lawn furniture...with six packs and lit cigarettes:" From Liz Taylo...More
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| The Songs of Antonio Botto
| António Botto was one of Portugal's first openly gay writers, a poète maudit whose unapologetic and candid verses about homosexual life and passion were both praised and reviled when they appeared in Portuguese in 1922 under the title Canções. Botto's poetic voice-confessional, personal, and intimate-revels and luxuriates in eroticism while expressing the ache of longing, silence, and suffering. Yet for all of his acclaim and notoriety-he was both hailed as one of the great poe...More
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| Exile in Gayville
| Ragan Fox offers poetry that demands and provokes readers, as well as entertains them. Fox bares not only his sexuality but his childhood fears and foes, his desires met and never satisfied, in these imaginative poems. These pieces deserve being read by anyone moved by the plight of today's gay culture wars.
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