vol. 11: Eroticism: From Sublime To Grotesque, 1989

Table of Contents
Introduction by Charles May, California State University,
Long Beach………………………………………………..ix
Essays:
Nietzsche: the Body in Truth by Thomas Haeussler
California State University, Long Beach…………………74
Tom of Finland by Karen Huck, University of Utah…………122
Eroticism and the Grotesque by Fredrick Burwick,
University of California, Los Angeles…………………..140

Fiction:
Rising Action by Gerald W. Haslam………………………….12
The Babydol Murders by Eugene Robinson…………………36
Panama City by Rafael Zepeda……………………………….47
Nabokoviana Plagiantis by Gian Balsamo………………..….101
Meat Man by andy Demcak…………………………………..146

Poetry:
After the Sanskrit by Steve Kowit……………………………2
Some Thoughts on Receiving a Corsage by Barbara Hauk….3
Summer Vacation by Kathleen Iddings………………………4
Musical by Arthur Madson……………………………………5
Baseball for Beginners by Murray McNeil 3…………………6
Paulette by Charles Webb…………………………………….8
A Twelve Year Old Love by Pete Albertsen…………………10
Action/Reaction by Hank Malone…………………………….20
"By Lyons" by Marta Mitrovich………………………………22
The Talk of Lovers by Deborah Harding……………………..23
Shooting Baskets by Kyle Anne Bates………………………..25
Basketball Tryouts by Kyle Ann Bates………………………26
Bloom by R. M. Angkuw………………………………………27
pervert by John Yamrus………………………………………28
The Beach by Henry A. Jimenez………………………………30
poem for rosie by Patrick McKinnon…………………………31
Sweet Gwendolyn and the Countess by Edward Field………34
Women Who Carry Knives in Their Purses
by Clarinda Harriss Lott…………………………………..41
Jaded by Patrick Combs………………………………………42
An Emmenagogue-ization of Stick People
by Craig Helmar………………………………………….44
Guy and Rita Dropped By by Fred Voss……………………45
For Donna Summer the Rock Singer Who Used
to Moan as if She Were Coming Over the Radio
Before she Got Saved and Still Believes We Work
Hard for the Money.by T.M. Goto………………………46
Recently Sexed Her by Richard Meltzer……………………..59
the playboy of the eastern world by Gerald Locklin………..60
It Doesn't Happen Often by Charles Webb………………….61
Lying in your bathtub waiting for you I
by Joan Jobe Smith……………………………………….62
he's got by John Yamrus………………………………………63
What It Means by Sheryl St. Germain………………………..65
The Curiosity of Marlene K. by Bill Mohr………………….67
from True Poems in False Chinese by Robt. Mehlman……..71
Zen Sex by Belinda Subraman………………………………..89
Evening Sky by Kathleen Iddings…………………………….90
Hiking by Keith A. Dodson…………………………………...91
Bare Limbs by Odie Monahan………………………………..92
Ginkgo in Fall by Julian Mason………………………………93
Essences by Heidi Ziolkowski……………………………...…94
In Plowboy's Produce Market by donna Hilbert……………96
Hungry by Lisa Glatt…………………………………………97
Maggie's in Love Again by Fred Voss………………………98
Chaos With Waterfowl by Doren Robbins………………...112
God's Body by Henry A. Jimenez…………………………..115
The Man who Loves Books by Murray McNeil 3………….117
Rockabilly by Edward Field…………………………………118
Campfire by Lizbeth Parker…………………………………120
Do Post Machine-Aged Women Ever Have Polyester
Dreams while Lying on an Acrylic Shag Carpet
Watching TV by Patricia Dempsey Koester…………….136
I Am Weird to the New Boys by Lisa Glatt………………...137
The Things We Do Alone by Lisa Glatt…………………….139
Ambrosia by Marael Johnson………………………………..149
Baldness Abolishes comfort and Creates Anxiety
by Barbara Hauk………………………………………….150
Playing With Fire by Nancy Shiffrin……………………….153

ART
Rick Ewing, Axel Koester, Steve LaPonsie, Pat Merrill, Karen Schoubye

COVER ART
Painting by John M. Solom Photography by bill Brining