So now it's the renegade kind of gay people who read my work. That makes it much easier for me. Unfortunately, just as a deeply closeted homosexual reacts with homophobia, the Borg-like Gay and Lesbian collective recoils in horror from anything that doesn't fit into their established paradigm. But the mainstream literary contingent remains dismissive of Cooper's dark vistas. At least Cooper can write novels with brevity, something that White still has not mastered.
Art is fundamentally a prism of perception.
Dennis Cooper does a fantastic job of both. He has no interest in a collective identity whatsoever. Indeed, you need freedom from the political community to protect your individual and ever-coveted perversions of mind and body. Glare A short vignette by Dennis Cooper. An Interview with Dennis Cooper Lawrence Chua begins this revealing interview with an excellent overview of Dennis Cooper's life, cultural influences and published work.