Sweet Son of Pan
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (506 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0977158217 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Matty Lee said Best poetry I've read since Pinero.. This collection of poems is not gay or straight, it's awesome! I haven't been into poetry for years now and some of my best friends are poets. I buy the books, read the mags and attend the readings in order to support the art, but I must admit that most of what I've liked has come with an "explicit lyric" warning attached to the front cover. That. Sven Davisson said Pan Lives!. As Gavin Geoffrey Dillard observes in his introduction, some of the most powerful spiritual poetry has its roots in the erotic--Whitman, Blake, Rumi, Mirabai. Like his forebears, Healey is a shaman of the word. This collection is a fitting homage to the randy cloven-hooved demigod. The poetry invokes the god into the reader (the shaman's unwittin. Sweet Son of Pan, Indeed The poems in Trebor Healey's wonderful, sexy collection SWEET SON OF PAN range from the down and dirty to the movingly sublime. Steeped in myth and in all aspects of the erotic, Healey's poetry is a celebration of male beauty and of the complexity of emotions men feel for each other. It is a book brimming with inventive word play and irreverence.
They are wishes; elegies for our lost brothers--and for the parts of our selves that our lost; parts we rediscover. Sweet Son of Pan is a collection of erotic poems, born of crushes, love affairs, fantasies, dreams, and real experiences with men from around the world. These poems are written in a mood of devotion, a praise through language of the sweetest garden we enter as physical beings. They are a response to the sadness that is often a consequence of sex; the fear that so unnecessarily surrounds it; the disrespect that is visited upon it. They are a reaffirmation of sexual freed
--Emanuel Xavier, editor of Bullets & Butterflies: queer spoken word poetry . His lyrics extend Walt Whitman's and Allen Ginsberg's poetic missions into the twenty-first century, celebrating masculinity and the magnetic power of the male body, singing the delights of sexual freedom and sensual variety. Trebor Healey is not only a priest of Eros and a sweet son of the randy god Pan, but a poet whose work would make his literary forebears proud. --horehound stillpoint, author of Reincarnation WoesThis book brims with bodily fluids and seduces the reader with brilliant humor and irresistible imagery. I am going to wear this book out. --Jeff Mann, author of Bones Washed with Wine…vibrating with a sexual heat turned all the way up to Transcendence
He spent his twenties in San Francisco, where he was active in the spoken word scene of the late 80s and early 90s, publishing 5 chapbooks of poetry as well as numerous poems and short stories in various reviews, journals, anthologies and zines. Trebor Healey is an American poet and novelist. Trebor currently lives in Los Angeles, where he is writing his second no