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Poems of a Penisist
Mutsuo Takahashi
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Description for Poems of a Penisist
Paperback. Translator(s): Sato, Hiroaki. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 181.
In the name of / Man, member, / and the holy fluid, / Amen, begins Mutsuo Takahashi's epic one-thousand-line erotic fantasy poem, Ode, the centerpiece of his groundbreaking collection of queer poetry, Poems of a Penisist. Takahashi's work, reminiscent of Walt Whitman's, is a celebration of the male body, treating homosexual desire as something sacred. Stunningly beautiful and passionate, Poems of a Penisist is one of the most important compilations of homoerotic poetry written in the twentieth century.
In the name of / Man, member, / and the holy fluid, / Amen, begins Mutsuo Takahashi's epic one-thousand-line erotic fantasy poem, Ode, the centerpiece of his groundbreaking collection of queer poetry, Poems of a Penisist. Takahashi's work, reminiscent of Walt Whitman's, is a celebration of the male body, treating homosexual desire as something sacred. Stunningly beautiful and passionate, Poems of a Penisist is one of the most important compilations of homoerotic poetry written in the twentieth century.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
180g
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816679720
SKU
V9780816679720
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About Mutsuo Takahashi
Mutsuo Takahashi is one of Japan's leading living poets. He has published more than three dozen anthologies of poetry and is a prolific essayist, literary historian, and critic. Hiroaki Sato is a Japanese poet and prolific translator who writes frequently for the Japan Times. Burton Watson is an award-winning translator of Chinese and ... Read more
Reviews for Poems of a Penisist
Mr. Takahashi was exempted from the human principle that every young boy grows up to be a young man. . . . He did not have to go down to the bottom of the sea, down to the bottom of the female genitalia, which many a young man mistakes for a philosophy, mistakes for profundity. -Yukio Mishima