Queer Beats How the Beats Turned America On to Sex
by Marler, ReginaFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-08-03
Publisher(s): Cleis Press
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Summary
Rebels of the conventional and stiff 1940s and 50s, the Beats celebrated spontaneity and freedom both intellectually and sexually. Marler explores the sexual pulse that throbbed throughout the Beats' writings - from the perverse 'cut-up' prose of William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch and the homoerotic poetry of Allen Ginsberg to Jack Kerouac's letter to Neal Cassady in which he declares (despite sexual encounters with Ginsberg and Gore Vidal): 'Posterity will laugh at me if it thinks I was queer'. Other contributors include Diane di Prima, Frank O'Hara and Herbert Huncke.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. xv |
| The Road of Excess (Or, Saintly Sinners) | p. 1 |
| In Society | p. 9 |
| On Meeting Kinsey | p. 11 |
| "Nobler, I thought, to die a man than live on, a sex monster..." | p. 15 |
| Dead Drunk | p. 21 |
| Youth | p. 25 |
| "I don't mind being called queer..." | p. 31 |
| "Burroughs may be gay, but he's a man..." | p. 33 |
| "We owed it to literary history..." | p. 35 |
| "Norman wanted to know what had really happened..." | p. 39 |
| "Something strange has happened..." | p. 41 |
| "I sit naked in my room remembering..." | p. 43 |
| "It was a strange, nondescript kind of orgy..." | p. 47 |
| Male Muses (Or, Sex without Borders) | p. 53 |
| "Oh, I love, love, love women!" | p. 63 |
| "I'm on a spree tonight..." | p. 65 |
| "Love is not controllable..." | p. 67 |
| Bradley the Buyer | p. 71 |
| "Posterity will laugh at me..." | p. 75 |
| Love Poem on Theme by Whitman | p. 77 |
| Teacher--Your Body My Kabbalah | p. 79 |
| "Accept my soul with all its throbbings and sweetness..." | p. 83 |
| "If like me you renounce love and the world..." | p. 87 |
| Malest Cornifici Tuo Catullo | p. 89 |
| from Howl | p. 91 |
| "I find myself getting jealous of Kiki..." | p. 95 |
| The Newport News has arrived in Venice for a week's stay... | p. 97 |
| A. J.'s Annual Party | p. 99 |
| from Cut-ups: A Project for Disastrous Success | p. 103 |
| "I Met Jack Kerouac in 1958 for One Glorious Moment..." | p. 107 |
| A Poem for Cocksuckers | p. 113 |
| from Memoirs of a Bastard Angel | p. 115 |
| Queer Shoulder to the Wheel | p. 117 |
| Me & Allen | p. 129 |
| Peter Jerking Allen Off (First Sex Experiment) | p. 131 |
| Why Is God Love, Jack? | p. 135 |
| Sexual Conditioning | p. 137 |
| Sweet Boy, Gimme Yr Ass | p. 141 |
| Going to Massachusetts | p. 143 |
| Horns | p. 155 |
| from The Place of Dead Roads | p. 159 |
| Pages from Cold Point | p. 161 |
| Green Ballet | p. 185 |
| Hi Risque | p. 187 |
| On Neal's Ashes | p. 191 |
| "Sex as a biological weapon" | p. 193 |
| Rain-Wet Asphalt Heat, Garbage Curbed Cans Overflowing | p. 195 |
| Now France | p. 197 |
| "Drag up your soul to its proper bliss..." | p. 199 |
| "The gay state" | p. 201 |
| Permissions | p. 203 |
| About the Author | p. 209 |
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