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Three-Way Renegade: $amuel $teward Without Apology

by (author) Keith Garebian

Publisher
Frontenac House Ltd.
Initial publish date
Oct 2023
Category
Canadian, LGBT
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781989466629
    Publish Date
    Oct 2023
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

Raw, tender, raunchy, melancholy, witty, and richly allusive, Three-Way Renegade is a satiric portrait in verse of Samuel Steward, a flamboyant, anarchic gay icon who passed from a life as a discontented academic to a sensational career as tattoo artist and notorious writer of erotic and pornographic literature. Composed entirely of octets (shifting in diction, tone, line-lengths and chronology with virtuoso facility), it radiates poetic eloquence and rhythmic verve as it follows the renegade’s life and the various historic figures (Alfred Kinsey, Thornton Wilder, Gertrude Stein to name but three) who came into this life. A tour de force hyper-erotic odyssey.

About the author

Keith Garebian is the author of five previous poetry collections — Frida: Paint Me As a Volcano (Buschek), Blue: The Derek Jarman Poems (Signature), Children of Ararat (Frontenac), and Moon On Wild Grasses (Guernica) — and fourteen books of non-fiction. His writing has earned him numerous awards, including the William Saroyan Medal (Armenia), three Mississauga Arts Awards (Established Literary), Canadian Authors Association (Niagara Branch) Poetry Awards, and numerous grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council.

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