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| Autobiography of a Tattoo | 
 enlarge | Author: Stan Persky
Publisher: New Star Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2626454
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 228
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0921586620
Dewey Decimal Number: 305
EAN: 9780921586623
ASIN: 0921586620
Publication Date: December 1997
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Autobiography of a Tattoo is an investigative literary work about the education and pursuit of homosexual desire. Its mixture of serial stories and modernist meditations invites readers on a journey that rangers from post-Wall Berlin to Plato's Athens. Stan Persky, the author of Buddy's and Then We Take Breaks, here breaks through the current impasse of contemporary gay/queer writing. Innovative in both form and content, Autobiography of a Tattoo probes the tensions between the memory and anticipation of desire, sexual representation and moral relationships, the illuminating glimpse of the immediate and the long view of civilization. Can writing be both hot and thoughtful, intimate and analytic? Find out why Stan Persky is the most important writer about homosexuality in North America today.
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Take Me There! July 15, 2000
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A fascinating hybrid of a philosophical meditation on love and a diary of Berlin summers, Persky's book breaks so many rules to thrilling effect that he should be enshrined as Chief Literary Outlaw. Persky is so fearless in investigating the basis for his feelings about his work, his obsession with a young rent-boy in Berlin and his friends that he virtually dares the reader to become exasperated with his waffling about reaching any premature conclusions. The miracle of his writing (and thought process) is that he keeps us fully engaged in his conversation with himself until exasperation turns into affection and complicity. Persky's love of teaching (he is a professor of philosophy in Vancouver, BC) is clear here both explicitly (he talks about his concern for his students at length) and implicitly (the entire book becomes an example of a unique teaching style). Persky, who is proudly over 60, takes pains to make sure we know that his own libido is exuberantly healthy (bravo!). If he had anything to do with approving the fabulous cover art for the book, he certainly insured that the libido of every reader will be sent into overdrive every time the eye catches the cover.
another fine collection of essays from the author of Buddy's June 2, 2001
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Persky is a very underrated writer in Canada. Partially, this is due to his chosen writing form--essays (although he began as a poet). Essay writing is still considered a dry, academic form in North America but Persky draws upon the more pleasurable personal/philosophical essay tradition of Montaigne and Roland Barthes. He is very open and insightful about his homosexual desires, but it would be a shame if his readership was limited to only those who share his sexual preference(s). Here's hoping that he begins to receive the wider attention he deserves and that he helps revive the essay tradition in North America.
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