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I was interviewed and was as eloquent as usual: Full article text is here.
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“I kissed you in a way Clark Gable would admire;I thought it classic.” Several years ago, a close friend of mine listed this as the best break up song. It’s true. It is. * * * Now planning full rewrite of most of manuscript 1. I have already rewritten the first two poems successfully and…
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Over the weekend I started toying with the idea that maybe this book is almost written. I’m thinking about it. I put the poems together and let them sit for a while. I wanted to see how they would flow, answer each other, expand, contract, resist, refute. Are you my manuscript? I asked. It doesn’t…
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Marketed as a sort of neo-noir tale of deception and sex, Dot the I follows the story of Carmen, who, during her bachelorette party, shares a “final single girl kiss” with the sexy (but short) Gael García Bernal. Their passion overwhelms them and Carmen, against her better judgment, becomes entangled in a love triangle… The…
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Several months ago, the luminous Emily Lloyd sent me a care package containing, among other wonderful things, a video of Todd Hayne’s 1991 film Poison. Poison is a triptych of strange tales:1. In the 1950s, A scientist isolates the human sexual hormone and then, after accidentally ingesting it, becomes a violent sexual monster who transmits…
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Table of Contents 1……………….Witness2……………….Compulsion3……………….The Death of Matthew Shepard * * * 5……………….I Am the Boy Who Is Tied Down * * * 15……………….Broken Ghazal16……………….Promise * * * 18……………….Safe * * * 46……………….The Myth of Male Beauty
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