"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.
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"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
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 141 mm
Dicke: 10 mm
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978-0-8166-7972-0 (9780816679720)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
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 Japanese poetry and literature.
