Gay and Lesbian Poetry - An Anthology From Sappho to Michelangelo - James J. Wilhelm ed.

This comprehensive anthology of homoerotic literature from the Greeks to the Italian Renaissance features 730 poems by 114 known and many unknown authors in seven languages and literatures. Although its main focus is on European languages, the anthology also includes Arabic and Hebrew poetry of medieval Spain. Most of the poems celebrate homoeroticism, but a few homophobic works are included.

Amid much blather about the alrightnik Western Literary Canon, child porn, and sexopolitical correctness - mostly neoconservative, lesser on the left, here's an old Classical tradition long censored and banished from academics, re-emerged into intelligent light: a heroic humorous homoerotic counterculture live from Sappho to Plato and Vergil, thru Mediaeval Latin, Arabic, Hebrew and provincial languages, up thru Renaissance to Michelangelo. It gives courage to post Whitmanic contemporaries who've come out of the Industrial Age Closet. - Allen Ginsberg

Soft Cover. 330 Pages.