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Dennis Cooper
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born
in Arcadia, California, The United States
January 10, 1953
website
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Rimbaud, Verlaine, De Sade, Baudelaire
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1. 'Arthur Rimbaud dreamed even in youth of escape from tedium -- the anonymity and tedium of an age in which everything was reduced to statistics. Escape from his home town of Charleville to Paris, from Paris to the Orient, from the Orient to Nothingness. At the very start of his quest he called for revolt in the name of art and defined creation as the profanation of all the modern age ho... Read more of this blog post »
1. 'Arthur Rimbaud dreamed even in youth of escape from tedium -- the anonymity and tedium of an age in which everything was reduced to statistics. Escape from his home town of Charleville to Paris, from Paris to the Orient, from the Orient to Nothingness. At the very start of his quest he called for revolt in the name of art and defined creation as the profanation of all the modern age ho... Read more of this blog post »
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Frisk
— published 1991 — 10 editions |
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The Sluts
— published 2004 — 5 editions |
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Closer
by Dennis Cooper, Thierry Fourreau , Jean-Luc Mengus — published 1989 — 7 editions |
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Try
by Dennis Cooper, Claro — published 1994 — 8 editions |
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Guide
— published 1997 — 7 editions |
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God Jr.
— published 2005 — 5 editions |
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Period
— published 2000 — 4 editions |
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My Loose Thread
— published 2002 — 6 editions |
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Wrong
— published 1993 — 3 editions |
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Ugly Man
— published 2009 — 12 editions |
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“When I started writing
I was a sick teenaged
fuck inside who partly
thought I was the new
Marquis de Sade, a body
doomed to communicate
with Satan who was us-
ing my sickness as his
home away from home,
and there’s your proof.”
― Dennis Cooper
I was a sick teenaged
fuck inside who partly
thought I was the new
Marquis de Sade, a body
doomed to communicate
with Satan who was us-
ing my sickness as his
home away from home,
and there’s your proof.”
― Dennis Cooper
“Dan thought of love as defined by books, cobwebbed and hidden from view by the past. Too bad a love like that didn't actually exist. In the twentieth century one had to fake it.”
― Dennis Cooper, Closer
― Dennis Cooper, Closer
“I'm a talentless but popular young singer and I have the feeling someone is watching me. I use the term loosely because I have few feelings, and even they're too simple, like primary colors.”
― Dennis Cooper, Closer
― Dennis Cooper, Closer
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