Poems of a Penisist
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| Rating | : | 4.63 (546 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081667972X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-11 |
| Language | : | Japanese |
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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. "Mr
In the tradition of Walt Whitman I am not sure if this allusion to Walt Whitman is valid across cultures and languages, but the stream of consciousness praise of the male body reminded me of his poetry. It is an intriguing work.
“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.