Peep-O-Rama: Sins of the Go-Go Girls - Softcover

Marra, Peter

9781522025061: Peep-O-Rama: Sins of the Go-Go Girls

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1522025065 ISBN 13: 9781522025061

Publisher: Independently published, 2017

On 7/31/2002 42nd Street, Times Square a.k.a. the "Deuce" heaved it’s final death rattle. As the New York Times reported: "The formal closing yesterday of the last peep palace on 42nd Street, Peep-O-Rama, was a coda in the rebirth of Times Square as a kinder, gentler place. The sex shops and naughty tape stores have been wiped clean from the famed street." This is the starting point for Peter Marra's landmark poetry collection PEEP-O-RAMA where no one is innocent and we can only watch in disbelief. These poems expose the inner workings of the psyche, a dissection of the state of America past and present, an exploration of love, alienation and addiction. It’s populated with creatures from the underworld: robbers, killers, addicts, hustlers and go-go girls gone berserk. Drop the tokens in the slot and wait for the curtain to rise and furtively watch the tableau of the lost souls as they reach for the brass ring. Follow the hunters and victims who are stained by sin and hounded by guilt on a psycho-trip through a constantly changing landscape where one rarely finds redemption and the trail is littered with bottles and needles and stained with tears of blood. This is a poetry collection for mature audiences you will not soon forget.

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