Private parts
Subtitle: the early works of Ian Ayres
By: Ian Ayres
Edition: Second edition, revised and expanded.
Publisher: French Connection Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Paris, France
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9782914853101
Subjects: Gay teenagers; Biography; Gay youth; Motion picture producers and directors
Description: Bringing together the best poems from Ayres's early verse (much of it written in houses of ill fame) to his erotic and darkly imaginative later pieces, this stunning collection also features his previously unpublished experiences with luminary legends such as Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Yoko Ono, Edmund White and Quentin Crisp. More than a book, PRIVATE PARTS is an experience of teen angst, hangovers for breakfast and raw enlightenment tripping over that cliff's edge in the rye. It would not exist if Ayres were not a survivor. Ayres's crusty accounts of a boy's life on the wild side explores the extreme boundaries of human behavior and amorality, offering a journey through his life from his early years in houses of ill repute to his life in Paris today. --
Table of contents: title: Introduction: From pimp to poet?; title: The prose menagerie. Tennessee Williams in the air ; Allen Ginsberg's heart still beats ; At the baths with Edmund White ; The gender-bender Quentin Crisp ; Scissors to widow's weeds : Yoko Ono's Cut piece 2003; title: À la recherche des poèmes perdus. Poemhead ; Mirror poem ; Word painting (for Yoko Ono) ; If trees could run ; Poem on black ink ; Fuck fame ; Whore lore ; The masseuse's son ; Mother Medusa ; Tony Curtis hot ; My pact with Satan ; Mourning son ; The succuboy ; Allen Ginsberg gave great head ; Packing for Italy ; Transvestite ; Kitchen note to the masses ; Lepers' orgy ; The keeper of the bed ; To the one who gave me AIDS ; Everything is queer ; Naked in the supermarket ; You never think it'll happen to you ; From Ibiza with love ; When money becomes worthless ; The alarm is set ; Pope: gay marriage is "evil" ; If ever ; Tokens from the tomb ; Opium in Thailand ; I bleed ink.