Dennis Cooper’s work
vrijdag, juli 30th, 2010Quote from 1989:
Instead of hammering the contents of his life into a plot for a gay-coming-of-age narrative, [Dennis] Cooper’s work constructs an autobiography of his imagination. A fascination with certain themes is evident in the work he’s been doing since he was sixteen. The lure of pornography, the miasma of drugs, and the inevitable moment of sadistic murder turn up frequently in his poetry and prose. He returns to them just as he does his favored sexual type, slightly screwy teenagers ”with nice faces,” he might say, echoing Wittgenstein.