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QUEER DHARMA
Voices of Gay Buddhists
Volume 2

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Edited by Winston Leyland.
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$16.95 paperback (0-940567-23-7), 224 pp.
$50.00 limited hardcover in dustjacket (0-940567-24-5)
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In this second volume gay men write indepth about how they have integrated their sexuality and spirituality via Buddhist practice. This book is focused on Buddhist practice and gay male sexuality/relationships in ten long personal accounts. Also included is an historical article and a sampling of fiction.
Included in the book are such pieces as:

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lavtri.gif Presence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Gay Relationship as Spiritual Practice by James Thornton
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lavtri.gif Finding Sangha: A Gay Perspective by Clint Seiter
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lavtri.gif From India to Africa to Buddha: Weaving a Path Home by Alzak Amlani
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lavtri.gif Practicing Buddhism as a Gay Man by former Buddhist abbot, Jim Wilson
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lavtri.gif We Two Boys Forever Non-Clinging: Being Buddhist and Coupled by Michael J. Sweet
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lavtri.gif Right Speech in the Gay Sangha by Kobai Scott Whitney
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lavtri.gif Reflections on the Mirror of Practice by Myo Denis Lahey
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lavtri.gif The Bad Buddhist and the Good Gay Heart by Mark Marion
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lavtri.gif Doubt and Commitment in Buddhist Practice: A Gay Perspective by Michael P.Hyman
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lavtri.gif How My Teacher Taught Me Tibetan Buddhism: A Gay Practitioner Remembers by Anthony E. Richardson M.D.
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lavtri.gif Pining Away for the Sight of the Handsome Cobra King: Ananda as Gay Ancestor and Role Model by Michael J. Sweet


QUEER DHARMA
Voices of Gay Buddhists

Volume 1
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Edited by Winston Leyland.
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$19.95 paperback. (0-940567-22-9), 416 pp.
$50.00 hardcover. (0-940567-21-0)
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Over thirty-five writers and fifty separate works are featured in this illustrated, ground-breaking book of 416 pages with articles from various Buddhist traditions (Vipassana, Zen, Tibetan). An Introduction by the editor is followed by Kobai Scott Whitney's "Vast Sky and White Clouds: Is There a Gay Buddhism?" Queer Dharma has six major sections:

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lavtri.gifBUDDHISM & HOMOSEXUALITY: HISTORICAL ESSAYS: Includes article on same-sex sexuality at the time of the Buddha; also historical articles on homosexuality in Japanese and Thai Buddhism.
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lavtri.gifTHE DHARMA AND GAY LIFE: PERSONAL ACCOUNTS: Gay people write about their sexuality and spiritual life and how they've integrated the two in such pieces as: "Practicing Together as a Gay Couple," "Wisdom Mind Meets Gay Sexuality," "Gurus and Lovers," "Zen in Black Leather", "Homophobia and Spiritual Teachers," "Coming Out Into Dharma Bliss," "Grief and the Path to Awakening," "Two Meditations," "Stories About My Teacher Issan Dorsey Roshi," "Buddhism, Healing and Gayness: A Personal Journey," "Surviving High School".
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lavtri.gif INTERVIEW WITH POET AND TIBETAN BUDDHIST JOHN GIORNO: He speaks frankly about gay lovemaking in Buddhist monasteries, about the recent statements of the Dalai Lama, about the AIDS project he has coordinated, about his practice of thirty years, and about his teacher, Dudjom Rinpoche, one of the greatest Tibetan Buddhist spiritual masters of the century.
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lavtri.gif CONTEMPORARY BUDDHISM AND HOMOSEXUALITY: Articles by a wide range of writers, including Jeffrey Hopkins' "Reason and Orgasm in Tibetan Buddhism," Zen teacher Charles Koren Baker's "Zen and Gay Love," Mark Marion's "Gay Male Intimacy and the Dharma," Clint Seiter's "Applying Buddhist Dharma to Casual Sex," Dennis Conkin's "The Dalai Lama and Gay Love," Tom Moon's "Obstacles to Intimacy in Gay Male Relationships: A Buddhist Perspective," Myo Denis Lahey's "Queer at Heart: Dharma Practice and the 'Gay Self.'"
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lavtri.gifGAY FICTION ON BUDDHIST THEMES: From the 17th century love letter by a monk to a young man ("The Monk from Kyoto Who Hated Cherry Blossoms"), to recent fiction ("A Window in the Wall").
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lavtri.gif QUEER DHARMA POETRY: Includes six poems by Allen Ginsberg ("Why I Meditate," "Thoughts Sitting Breathing II" etc.) plus prose piece "Allen Ginsberg on Buddhism and Gayness," poems by other writers (Richard Ronan's "Buddha's Kisses," Trebor's "Make My Boyfriend a Buddha") ...


lavtri.gif "Thought-provoking and satisfying...the book provides convincing evidence that the Buddhist sangha, or community, has put down solid roots in the U.S., and that gay people are among its most committed and passionate members." --Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review
lavtri.gif "Groundbreaking and intensely moving book..." --Issanji
lavtri.gif "Buddhism can help Gay men--not by giving a definition, but by teaching us a new way to being aware of ourselves and the world . . . Queer Dharma is a rich resource for gay men who are searching for ways to integrate their spiritual and emotional/sexual lives." --Gay Buddhist Fellowship Newsletter
lavtri.gif "Queer Dharma is a phenomenon -- the first anthology ever that mixes the gritty experience of being gay in America with the nuances and flavors of Buddhism. It's an exciting book simply because it presents perspectives that are completely new. Our favorite themes of love and sex are at center stage, but so too are the Buddhist notions of suffering and the release from suffering. What gay man over 23 doesn't see the connection?" --Larry White, Bay Area Reporter
lavtri.gif "Over 35 gay men have contributed to this anthology of fiction, poetry, art, scholarship, and personal testimony about what it means to be a gay Buddhist practitioner." --Tricycle
lavtri.gif "In the article 'Practicing Together as a Gay Couple' I met Michael C. Hyman, a gay Zen Buddhist and father, who somehow makes domesticity seem profoundly heroic ... Part 2 also includes pieces on coming out, love and loss, recovery, SM, casual sex, working with the dying, and the much-loved queer teacher Issan Dorsey." --Turning Wheel, Journal of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship
lavtri.gif "Queer Dharma is truly a banquet of tastes touching on many common experiences we have as gay men. To read it leads you to experience parts of your own life again with a fresh perspective. It is a wonderful contribution to ending the sense of separation we feel when we are alone on a spiritual path. This book should be on every gay man's bookshelf and be part of the path to Buddha which is your own true larger self." --Alan Oliver, White Crane (Journal of Gay Men's Spirituality)
lavtri.gif "Remember that feeling when you found out there were millions of other people 'like that'? You can get it again reading this book. Yes, there are other Gay Buddhists! This book is soaked with love, compassion, strength, and clarityall the way through. It gave me so much hope I couldn't stop reading it, hugging it, reading it, hugging it...." --online review by Carlitos


PRAYER TO GURU RINPOCHE (Padmasambhava) THAT SWIFTLY REMOVES OBSTACLES AND FULFILLS ALL WISHES. (Padmasambhava was the 8th century great Tibetan Buddhist teacher), written by H.H. Dudjom Rinpoche (1904-1987), head of the Tibetan Nyingma School and one of the greatest scholars and meditation masters of the past century.

 


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GAY ROOTS:
An Anthology of Gay History, Sex, Politics & Culture Volumes 1 and 2

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Edited by Winston Leyland
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Vol. 1 $22.95 paperback; $50.00 hardcover, 702 pp.
ISBN 0-940567-13-X (paper); 0-940567-12-1 (hardcover)
Vol. 2 $19.95 paperback; $50.00 hardcover, 320 pp.
ISBN 0-940567-15-6 (paper); 0-940567-14-8 (hardcover)
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An anthology encyclopedic in scale, Gay Roots collects work by more than 100 writers and artists. Five books in one, the mammoth 700-page Vol. 1 has sections on "Gay History," "Gay Sex and Politics," "Gay Biography and Literary Essays," "Gay Fiction," and "Gay Poetry." Includes work by such writers as Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, W.H. Auden, Rimbaud/Verlaine, Robin Maugham, and such pieces as "Living in Truth" (on the probable sexual relationship between the Egyptian pharaohs Akhenaten and Smenkhkare).
lavtri.gif Winner of Lambda Book Award for best gay book of the year.
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Vol. 2 includes much new work, such as Charley Shively's study of George Washington's very bisexual military circle during the Revolutionary War, "The Historical Roots of Homophobia," "The Passions of Michelangelo," the complete novella, Costa Brava, and much more.

lavtri.gif "This radiant volume reveals the roots of gay culture, its omnipresence, continuity and its ongoing ability to shake us up."
--Bay Area Reporter
lavtri.gif "Winston Leyland is one of the seminal figures in the history of gay publishing. Now he has given us Gay Roots, a huge compendium of gay scholarship and literature." --The Sentinel

lavtri.gif "This massive anthology could stand alone as a documentary record of gay life in our time. First as a San Francisco tabloid, then as a book publishing house, Gay Sunshine is legend for honest, open, unapologetic reporting of gay life." --MultiCultural Review
lavtri.gif "Gay Roots is one of those books I'd like all my friends to have. Then, when I visited, I could see where it opens automatically and I'd know my friends better. This hefty anthology is a treasure...it engages the erotic, the scholarly, the political, the poetic, the exotic, the local and the personal equally. No matter what gay or straight convention might enforce, Gay Sunshine always reflected the whole universe of gay interest."
--Lambda Book Report



GAY SUNSHINE INTERVIEWS: Volumes 1 & 2
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Edited by Winston Leyland
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Vol 1: $14.95 paper (0-917342-61-5); $25.00 hardcover (0-917342-60-7), 328 pp.
Vol. 2: $14.95 paper (0-917342- 63-1); $25-00 hardcover (0-917342-62-3), 288 pp.

In depth interviews with gay writers and artists, providing seminal insights into the connections between sexuality and artistic creativity. Included are Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, Allen Ginsberg, Christopher Isherwood, Jean Genet, William Burroughs, John Rechy, Lou Harrison, Taylor Mead, Ned Rorem, Mutsuo Takahashi. John Wieners, Roger Peyrefitte, many more.
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lavtri.gifProvocative aperçus on writing in general and on the relationship of homosexuality to art in particular." --Washington Post
lavtri.gif"Many of the interviews transcend mere 'people journalism' and emerge as first-class literary and social criticism on their own, almost creating a new genre of commentary on life and letters." --New Age
lavtri.gif "By drawing together a constellation of stars, each one accompanied by a fine photograph, all engaged in naked revelation, Winston Leyland has managed to make hundreds of pieces of a definition spark off poetically and dramatically." --American Book Review

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BLACK MEN WHITE MEN
Afro American Gay Life and Culture

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Edited by Michael J. Smith.
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$18.95 paperback (0-917342-28-3), 240 pp.
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For the first time, the Afro-American and interracial gay experience: a collection of short stories, personal reminiscences, interviews, political articles, photos, poems, drawings -- from the most scholarly to the most explicit by 43 writers/artists. Re-issue of a gay classic.
Includes work such as "The Double Life of a Gay Dodger," [on a black baseball player]; "Smoke, Lilies and Jade" -- a short story by Harlem Renaissance writer Bruce Nugent; "T'ain't Nobody's Bizness: Homosexuality in 1920s Harlem," by Eric Garber; "Racism in the Gay Press," "Struggles of a Black Gay Pentecostal," work by world-famous writer Langston Hughes, and much more......
lavtri.gif"A pioneering anthology...this book is a challenge, a mirror to hold up to ourselves."
--New York Native


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MEN LOVING MEN
A Gay Sex Guide and Consciousness Book

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Mitch Walker.
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$18.95 paper (0-917342-52-6) 160 pp.
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Men Loving Men is a complete sex guide, with direct illustrated explanations for all forms of gay lovemaking: sucking, anal intercourse, masturbation, sex toys. An up-to-date section on gay health/safe sex practices is also included in this 2nd edition of a gay classic.

lavtri.gif"A warm, wonderful, tender book written by and for gay men. The book's emphasis is on sharing, growing, discovering roots, confronting fears, becoming whole and real.
--Gay Psychologists' Newsletter.
lavtri.gif"A fine manual in tone and feeling . . it conveys a sense of being at peace with sex and sexuality." --Siecus Reports.



Two seminal books on the gay life and consciousness of America's national poet, Walt Whitman:
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CALAMUS LOVERS: Walt Whitman's Working-Class Camerados transp.gif
Edited by Charley Shively
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$14.95 paper (0-917342-18-6), 224 pp.
$25.00 hardcover (0-917342-17-8)
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Examines Whitman's relationships with his comrades and same-sex lovers. The surviving (mostly unpublished) letters which many of these men wrote to Walt place his Calamus poems in context and provide a unique insight into gay life. Illustrated.

lavtri.gif"Here at last is the long awaited truth about Whitman -- and then some." --Advocate
lavtri.gif"A historic book ... it definitely oversteps the boundaries of what prudish people call good taste ... fascinating." --San Francisco Examiner
lavtri.gif "On the battlefield of Whitman studies, Calamus Lovers scores a ringing victory for openness, truth and scholarship." --Boston Phoenix
DRUM BEATS: Walt Whitman's Civil War Boy Lovers
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Edited by Charley Shively
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$14.95 paper (0-940567-07-5), 256 pp.
$25.00 hardcover (0-940567-06-7)
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Letters to Walt from fifty Civil War soldiers and lovers. Also includes remarkable new material on Abraham Lincoln's possible bisexuality and the homosexual underworld of that period.. Illustrated with 35+ Civil war era photos & drawings.


CRUISING THE SOUTH SEAS
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Stories by Charles Warren Stoddard
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$14.95 paperback (0-940567-03-2), 192 pp.
$25.00 hardcover (0-940567-02-4)

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First modern reissue of the true autobiographical stories of adventures with young Hawaiian and Tahitian men by the late 19th century California writer, C.W. Stoddard, a friend of Bret Harte and Walt Whitman.
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Boyd McDonald's S.T.H. Series (5 volumes)

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FLESH: True Homosexual Experiences
Vol. 2

$14.95 paper (0-917342-91-7), 192 pp.
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SEX: True Homosexual Experiences
Vol. 3

$14.95 paper (0-917342-98-4), 192 pp.
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Men nationwide write with no-holds-barred about their sexual encounters -- truck drivers, hustlers, professors, workers. Illustrated.

lavtri.gif "True horny stories of male-male love and sex... terse vivid accounts. An act of radical publishing." --Village Voice
lavtri.gif"Puts the sex back in homosexuality..." --G.C.N. Boston
lavtri.gif "Has glowing endorsements from William Burroughs, Thom Gunn and Gore Vidal, making S.T.H. the gay man's guarantee of literary cachet." --Soho Weekly News

lavtri.gif "The most important book ever published for gay men." --G.L.C. Voice [on Meat]
lavtri.gif "S.T.H. provides an alternative version of American sexuality, celebrating encounters and desires that embarrass and refute those 'straight' depictions of the world that we all grew up on ... A legend, a national treasure. I've even heard S.T.H. referred to along with Proust. These volumes are masterpieces. Across the land you can hear the sound of one hand clapping." --Advocate

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POETRY
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Frontispiece from Straight Hearts'
Delight.
Photo by Richard Avedon.

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STRAIGHT HEARTS' DELIGHT :
Love Poems and Selected Letters

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Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky
Edited by Winston Leyland

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$14.95 paper (0-917342-65-8), 240 pp.
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Poems and letters over a 30-year period illuminate the love relationship of two famous beat writers, as well as friendships with Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Neal Cassady etc. Includes all of Ginsberg's gay love poems up until time of publication. Illustrated with photos and drawings.
lavtri.gif "Defiant eroticism and a hard-won grace." -- Los Angeles Times
lavtri.gif "Ginsberg's Beat ragas, traditional lyrics and East Village odes combine a Whitmanesque embrace of the body with a Buddhist vision of self-transcendence." --Publisher's Weekly

lavtri.gif "In gathering together love poems, photographs, drawings and letters, Winston Leyland exposes two extraordinary bodies--living literature, literary lives--never before seen in such clear, transparent beauty/totality. Straight Hearts' Delight provides wonderful clues and questions about how love, poetry, sex, relationships, the world and revolution are (can be) linked together." -- Prof. Charley Shively


treasures.jpgTREASURES OF THE NIGHT :
The Collected Poems of Jean Genet

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Translated by Steven Finch
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$14.95 paper (0-917342-76-3), 120 pp.

A collection of all the poems by the famous homosexual French writer, Jean Genet. Bilingual edition (French/English). In a framework of traditional French verse, the eternal and universal themes of poetry and prose, life and death, love and indifference, water and earth, day and night, reality and illusion are reunited and reevaluated.

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lavtri.gif "Finch has accomplished the best possible renderings of Genet's loose and easygoing yet well-controlled line arrangements ... preserving the linguistic force and emotional vitality of Genet's seductive eroticism and blunt sexual statement .... No better collection of Genet's poems is available now or likely to appear in the future." --Library Journal

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THE YOUNG SAILOR and other poems
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Luis Cernuda; Translated by Rick Lipinski
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$10.00 paper (0-940567-01-6), 128 pp.
$25.00 hardcover (0-940567-00-8)
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A collection of superb, homoerotic poems by the famous Spanish poet Luis Cernuda (1920-1963), of the generation after Garcia Lorca. "Some bodies are like flowers, Others like daggers, Others like rivers of water..."

THE DISROBING
Sex and Satir
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Royal Murdoch
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$10.00 paper (0-917342-96-8), 112 pp.

Royal Murdoch (1898-1981) was born in California, lived in New York City for many years and then in Mexico City for the last two decades of his life. He won the Van Rensselaer Poetry Prize in 1933. The Disrobing, an in- memoriam volume, is the first collection of his gay writing, covering a fifty-year period.
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Included are journal selections, part of an autobiographical novel, aphorisms, and poetry. This is one of the few books available written by an older gay man and covering all his life.

lavtri.gif "[His work] has individuality, momentum." -- Marianne Moore
lavtri.gif "Royal Murdoch's highly individual style of lyricism marks him for special notice. . . His originality seems born of a remarkably varied career." --New York Sun


CUTE and other poems
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Jim Everhard
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$10.00 paper (0-917342-93-3), 80 pp.
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Cute brings together a body of poetry that dramatizes the evolution of gay awareness with wit and passion. Washington D.C. poet Jim Everhard died of AIDS in 1986, one of that large number of creative artists lost to our community and country over the past decade and half. His work, poetry and prose, is also in Gay Roots Volume 2.


lavtri.gif "[Cute] is a marvelous book. Rich and funny, deeply moving and nearly always wry even in his grimmest poems, and sometimes genuinely visionary, Everhard is one of the best gay poets." --Ron Schreiber
lavtri.gif "Jim Everhard's work is probably the most brilliant, insightful among that large body of poetry engendered by Stonewall and the subsequent gay liberation movement." --Winston Leyland


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Jim Everhard (1946-1986)
at Rehoboth Beach, Del., 1984
Photo by Orry Kelly

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BUDDHA'S KISSES
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$10.00 paper (0-917342-73-9), 96 pp.
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This is a book of love poems, a work of grace and relentlessness. Its main concerns are the love of men, the presence of loss, and aloneness in time and place. Richard Ronan died of AIDS in 1989 in San Francisco.


lavtri.gif "A fresh, insistent and luminous flow, a notable range."--James Purdy
lavtri.gif "Orientally simple and baroquely erotic." --Joe Brainard

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