More than 25 years after the appearance of Strand's first "Selected Poems," readers have a magnificent new gathering of his work. "New Selected Poems" represents an essential compilation from one of the most beloved and honored American poets at work today.
A surprisingly domestic novel, PIERRE is about a nuclear family and its claustrophobic emotional dependencies. Dealing with immensely controversial issues such as incest and moral relativism, PIERRE was savaged by critics upon its publication in 1852. This new edition is a return to an early version, cutting the portions that Melville added after ...
Philip Roth's fiction has often come very close to fact, and in MY LIFE AS A MAN (1974), his sixth novel (and first post-PORTNOY), he gives us Peter Tarnopol, a rising young writer whose many resemblances to Roth are blatant and whose story recalls Roth's first brief disastrous marriage to a woman who, soon after their divorce, was killed in a car ...
This is a book about representations of sodomy. While most of the texts it considers are literary - works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser and others - it is framed by more recent political considerations. The book takes as axiomatic that Foucault's description of sodomy as 'that utterly confused category' which he assigned to historic regimes ...
A surprisingly domestic novel, PIERRE is about a nuclear family and its claustrophobic emotional dependencies. Dealing with immensely controversial issues such as incest and moral relativism, PIERRE was savaged by critics upon its publication in 1852. This new edition is a return to an early version, cutting the portions that Melville added after ...
Fiction, essays, and poems by 43 celebrated writers, including David Leavitt, Dale Peck, Frank O'Hara, Stephen McCauley, Tennessee Williams, David Sedaris, Armistead Maupin, Joe Orton, Paul Rudnick, Terrence McNally, and Michael Chabon.
Men who have strayed and men who have stayed faithful contribute to a unique and personal collection of stories and essays examining what it means to be faithful to a relationship and a marriage in the modern world. 40,000 first printing.
A surprisingly domestic novel, PIERRE is about a nuclear family and its claustrophobic emotional dependencies. Dealing with immensely controversial issues such as incest and moral relativism, PIERRE was savaged by critics upon its publication in 1852. This new edition is a return to an early version, cutting the portions that Melville added after ...
This work identifies a genre that flourished between the Civil War and World War I: the American boy book. Described as an autobiographical form that concentrates on boyhood alone, the book discusses what gave rise to the genre, what forms it took, what problems it addressed and why it disappeared.
"Fresh Men 2" collects the best new writing by emerging gay authors from around the USA. With equal parts sensitivity and irreverence, the anthology speaks to the broad range of gay experiences. From stories of coming out, coming of age, self-representation and family to sex and love in the time of AIDS, from living in the closet to loving in a ...
Despite the availability of several eloquent gender studies of fairy tales, a popular reference on men and fairy tales has so far been nonexistent. "Brothers and Beasts" offers a new perspective by allowing twenty-three male writers the chance to explore their artistic and emotional relationship to their favorite fairy-tale stories. In their ...
The essays in this volume analyze a wide variety of cultural forms to demonstrate the centrality of masculine sentiment in American literary and cultural history from the early republic to the progressive era. Challenging the association of sentimentality exclusively with femininity in studies of American culture, the contributors analyze ...
Following on from "Flesh and the Word", this book contains erotic offerings from top writers, porn stars and literary stars representing a celebration of sexuality, real and imagined, and an affirmation that the gay erotic imagination, so long repressed, is coming out for good.
A surprisingly domestic novel, PIERRE is about a nuclear family and its claustrophobic emotional dependencies. Dealing with immensely controversial issues such as incest and moral relativism, PIERRE was savaged by critics upon its publication in 1852. This new edition is a return to an early version, cutting the portions that Melville added after ...
In a collection of risky and provocative true tales, prominent gay novelists such as Jim Grimsely, Bruce Benderson and Brian Bouldrey, along with new talents, bare themselves at their sexiest and most vulnerable.
Unflinching, tender, and extraordinarily telling visions of gay life mark this triumphantly outspoken anthology which includes stories by Michael Cunningham, Brad Gooch, Jesse Green, Rex Knight, John Harris, Michael Scalisi, Robert Trent, John Weir, Richard Davis, Scott Heim, and others.
Until recently, "masculinity" and its impact on literary production and reception has received scant attention in the field of literary criticism. Although critics certainly have been interested in examining gender, they have tended to be far more concerned with the "feminine" side of the equation than with the "masculine". This book is an attempt ...
What does he really mean when he says: "It's not you, it's me"? Profanity. Egging. Xanax. Oh, the things men (and even some women) will resort to when love's gone awry. In The Encyclopedia of Exes, some of today's hippest male writers dig deep into their romantic pasts to present twenty-six inspired pieces of short fiction on heartbreak and ...
What sends men to writing, making them not be mechanics or doctors? In these essays Fred Chappell, Madison Smartt Bell, and others confront a three-fold tension: the deep urge to write, the romantic fantasy to be a writer, and the bottom-line need to earn money. Eve Shelnutt says "They speak with a rare humility and gratitude about the 'clumsy ...
Gender criticism, Alan Williamson argues, has for too long been shaped and limited by the same dualisms that have defined male versus female literary voices in Western culture. Certain emotions expressed in literature are considered "feminine," certain emotions are typed as "masculine," and there is little room in critical studies for the male ...
In this volume, Fred Moramarco and Al Zolynas bring together a comprehensive and representative selection of poetry reflecting both the diversity and the commonality of male experience in the United States today. Since the beginning of the contemporary phase of the women's movement in the 1960s, various anthologies devoted to the poetry of women ...
This text explores the examination's figurative power for nineteenth-century discourses of subject formation and value through readings of works by Matthew Arnold, Anthony Trollope, Charles Dickens, and John Ruskin. These writers were active during the 1850s and 1860s, when the examination began to structure a range of British institutions, from ...
The third installment of the bestselling international gay men's erotica series, consisting of stories of one thousand words or fewer that articulate desire between men. Previous books in the series have made bestseller lists, and feature many award-winning writers and anthologists among their contributors, including Doug Ferguson, Shaun Levin, ...
Explores why some early modern writers put their masculine literary authority at risk by writing from the perspective of femininity and effeminacy. The text argues that such work promoted alternatives to the dominant patriarchal aesthetics by celebrating unruly female and effeminate male bodies.
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