Not Just Another Pretty Face (Paperback)

Louis Flint Ceci

ISBN 10: 0970831072 / ISBN 13: 9780970831071

Published by Beautiful Dreamer Press, 2016

About this Item

Paperback. The stories, poems, and essays in this collection have a single element in common that unites their wide range of literary styles and genres: they all spring directly from photographs of go-go boys. An ideal go-go boy is the perfect erotic object: slick, vacant, tantalizing, charged. We may imagine him as lost or broken so that we might rescue him, or as potent and agressive so that we might be the focus of his desire. But the images captured here suggest deeper, more complex realities. These dancers are whimsical, haunting, satiric, playful, ominous. They are not objects, not icons, but stories waiting to be told. Not Just Another Pretty Face plays with the interface of projections: what these young men are projecting in their poses and expressions, and what we are projecting on them in return. It explores assumptions, prejudices, fantasies, and revelations. It looks beyond the archetype, beneath the skin. This color edition shows the photographs in all their rich detail as the authors saw them when picking the images for their inspiration. An anthology of short stories, poems, essays, and drama inspired by photographs of male go-go dancers. The young men in these photos are not mere icons or erotic objects, but stories waiting to be told. Twenty-seven authors, including many Lammy award winners, take us into worlds that are romantic, haunting, whimsical, erotic, and deeply personal. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Not Just Another Pretty Face (Paperback)
• Publisher: Beautiful Dreamer Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0970831072
• ISBN 13: 9780970831071
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

The stories, poems, and essays in this collection have a single element in common that unites their wide range of literary styles and genres: they all spring directly from photographs of go-go boys.

An ideal go-go boy is the perfect erotic object: slick, vacant, tantalizing, charged. We may imagine him as lost or broken so that we might rescue him, or as potent and agressive so that we might be the focus of his desire. But the images captured here suggest deeper, more complex realities. These dancers are whimsical, haunting, satiric, playful, ominous. They are not objects, not icons, but stories waiting to be told.

Not Just Another Pretty Face plays with the interface of projections: what these young men are projecting in their poses and expressions, and what we are projecting on them in return. It explores assumptions, prejudices, fantasies, and revelations. It looks beyond the archetype, beneath the skin.

This color edition shows the photographs in all their rich detail as the authors saw them when picking the images for their inspiration.

About the Authors

Louis Flint Ceci has edited four books of poetry for Beautiful Dreamer Press. His poetry has been published in Colorado North Review and read on the air as part of PRI's Living on Earth. His short stories have appeared in Diseased Pariah News, Trikone, and Jonathan, and in the anthologies Queer and Catholic and Gay City Volume 4: At Second Glance. His novel, Comfort Me, was published by Prizm Books in 2008.

Dot (a.k.a. Tom Schmidt) has been photographing the gay scene in San Francisco for over a decade, covering drag shows, beer busts, sex workers, faerie gatherings, and street people. Sons of God (2011), his homoerotic recasting of "Bible story" images, won him recognition from mainstream galleries. His 2012 exhibition, Escort: The Classic Beauty of Male Sex Workers in San Francisco, was a feature of that year's Gay Pride celebration. He has had solo shows at Eros, Magnet, and Supperclub in San Francisco. His photos have appeared in M Magazine, RFD, and on the cover of Jonathan. He was a finalist for the 4th Annual Mike Ivanitsky Award for Photographic Excellence in 2011, and in 2012 he was runner up in the Pacific Art League's juried art show in Palo Alto, California.