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This Is Not a Skyscraper
This Is Not a Skyscraper examines New York City through a surrealist lens. Like the title of Magritte's painting, "This is not a pipe," these poems question perceptions of the metropolis. While NYC entices talents that swarm its stages, museums, runways, and readings, throngs of outsiders live on the city's margins, silenced. Among the grotesqueries of corruption, an African immigrant is killed by police in a case of mistaken identity. His disembodied voice introduces the book. Many of these poems attempt to speak for the "others" existing on the peripheral, whose perspectives have been abandoned.
Rivering
Poetry. LGBT Studies. "Very few of these poems come to us with the demands of a determined art; rather, as in the first poems of Cavafy, the grace of Dean Kostos's texts (I would call it unconscious grace, for that is the adjective which permits all heaven as much as all hell to explode, to let fly) is the result of another effort, not even the effort to please, but merely—merely!—the will to tell the truth, to tell what happened, what didn't.... It is another version of art to which the poet trusts himself, call it the grace of nature which invites the reader to return, to read again until he has made the poem an experience of his own. That is what happens here, the reader returns until he owns the poems. Or do the poems own him?"—Richard Howard
Broken Color
A poetry collection by Dean Kostos.
Last Supper of the Senses
Poetry. LGBT Studies. "The poetry of sensation arises at the intersection of world, nerve ending, and language. Dean Kostos is a carnivalesque wizard on all three fronts, a type that Huizinga called 'homo ludens, ' man at play. The delight he takes in sonic invention, puns, and traditional verseforms draws us into the game with him--a game whose ingenuity shouldn't blind us to the fact that he is also a poet of uncommon pathos"--Alfred Corn
The Sentence that Ends with a Comma
The Sentence that Ends with a Comma is Dean Kostos' first full-length collection. In the poems' protean shifts, they collapse and reconstruct themselves metamorphically and metaphorically: religious sensibility reifies itself in the body of Eros; history merges with a personal past; the province of memory melds with the terrains of New York and Europe, especially Greece. The 'l' of the poet collides with the 'l' of a painting, a window full of mannequin heads, the disembodied spirit of a prostitute, and even decanters of scents -- all with something to tell us about love or loss.
Pomegranate Seeds
From the Publisher: This volume is the first-ever collection of poems in English by 49 prominent Greek-American poets from throughout the United States. The poems cover a variety of topics and styles.
Mama's Boy
In this compelling collection of short memoirs, gay men take on a stereotype and delve into what it means to be mommy's favorite. Through humor, insight and poignancy, the writers in this collection reclaim and rejoice in describing a special relationship that has never been examined in quite this way before. Voices from many backgrounds navigate the sometimes wonderful, sometimes treacherous, but inevitably fascinating terrain of that very special bond between mothers and their different sons. These inspired explorations of this unique relationship will help readers gain a better appreciation of themselves and come to a new meaning of the term mama's boy.
Divining Divas
Editor Michael Montlack has assembled an anthology of a hundred gay poets--award winners and fresh voices--in thrall with female icons throughout the ages ranging from Gloria Swanson to Mary J, Blige, from Edith Piaf to Joni Mitchell, Bette Midler to Lady Gaga. These are not merely appreciations of the gorgeous and daring but poems that are confessional to bittersweet to witty.
Reading Brokeback Mountain
This collection offers 15 critical essays on Annie Proulx's short story "Brokeback Mountain" and its controversial film adaptation by screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana and director Ang Lee. Each essay explores the short story, the film, and the sociocultural phenomenon that followed the release of the motion picture in December 2005. This anthology includes selections from traditional perspectives and from postmodern angles, including women's studies, gender studies, queer studies, sexuality studies, ethnic studies, and American studies. Many of the essays focus primarily on the film, its critical reception, its stars, its director, its soundtrack, and its cultural implications.
