The platonic blow / W.H. Auden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973, author.

Contributor:

Fuck You Press, printer.

Lisa Beth Deutsch Memorial Book Fund.

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Erotic poetry, English.

Oral sex--Poetry.

Oral sex.

Gay men--Sexual behavior--Poetry.

Gay men.

Gay men--Sexual behavior.

LGBTQ+ people.

Men.

Sexual minorities.

Homosexuality.

Monosexuality.

Sexual orientation.

Gender identity.

Sexual preference.

Genre:

Printed books -- 20th century -- United States -- New York -- New York -- Specimens.

Gay poetry

Erotic poetry

Poetry

Gay poetry.

LGBTQ+ poetry.

LGBTQ+ literature.

Erotic poetry.

Erotica -- 20th century.

Authors' autographs (Provenance)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York City : Printed by the Fuck You Press for the world Gobble Grope Fellowship, [1965]

Notes:

Cover title.

"Designed & published, zapped & ejaculated by two legendary editors and poets at a secret location in the Lower East Side, New York City, U.S.A."--Page 1.

"©1965 The Dietrich Von Buttfükel Gobble Grope Fellowship"--Page 1.

"Printed in four editions: A trade edition of 300 copies; A Rough Trade Edition of 5 numbered copies, each with beautiful slurp drawings by the artist Joe Brainard; An edition of 3 numbered copies, each with a sealed packet sewn in, containing secret gobble relics from the body of W.H. Auden; The Turkey Edition, 2 copies, which reveals the names of the publishers, both evil young poets, toe queens, & cocksmen, scandalously freaking in the Lower East Side"--Colophon. According to Bloomfield, "There appears to be no evidence for the existence of the last two editions described in the pamphlet itself."

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lisa Beth Deutsch Memorial Book Fund.

Cited in:

Bloomfield, B.C. W.H. Auden (2d ed.), pages 366-367

OCLC:

706356