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Drew Pisarra

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Drew Pisarra once toured his monologues on both coasts and even had a ventriloquist act but has since retired from the world of dummies. His poetry has been called "brazen and lusty and often amusing" by "The Washington Post" while his short stories have been described as "thematically complex and often disturbing" by "The Empty Closet."

He is also the recipient of grants/commissions from Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation, Curious Elixirs: Curious Creators, Portland Art Museum, P.I.C.A., Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and Imago Theatre. Additionally, he was a featured poet at The Whitney Biennial 2022, as part of a two-day reading marathon hosted by A Gathering of the Tribes. ...more

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	Analog Science Fiction & Fact, November/December 2022 by Trevor Quachri (Editor), Mark W. Tiedemann (Goodreads Author), Aurelien Gayet 3.87 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2022	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Analog Science Fiction & Fact, January/February 2023 by Trevor Quachri (Editor), Alec Nevala-Lee (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Rajan Khanna (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.55 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2023	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Brute: Stories of Dark Desire, Masculinity, & Rough Trade by Steve Berman, Elton Skelter (Goodreads Author), Nick Mamatas 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stories About Penises: An Anthology of Short Stories & Poetry by Julianne Ingles (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Matt Dennison (Contributor), Gerry Marsh (Contributor) 3.44 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cyber Smut: Short Stories and Poetry by Julianne Ingles (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Aidan Martin (Contributor), Andrew Bowen (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Periodic Boyfriends 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You're Pretty Gay really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Infinity Standing Up 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fassbinder: His Movies, My Poems 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Publick Spanking really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1996	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Is Edna St. Vincent Millay old-fashioned? Sure. What of it. Because her politics sure feel of the moment, what with two sonnets honoring Sacco and Vanzetti, the antihumanist musing within "The Return" and "Apostrophe to Man," and the subsequent epic ...more
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Drew rated a book it was amazing The Decay of the Angel (The Sea of Fertility, #4) by Yukio Mishima	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
My interest in The Sea of Fertility tetralogy nearly petered out after Book 3 but I'm glad I came back to finish the series, albeit ten years later, because this concluding volume is a stunner, a vigorous collision with the built-in destructiveness t ...more
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Drew rated a book it was amazing The Decay of the Angel (The Sea of Fertility, #4) by Yukio Mishima	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
My interest in The Sea of Fertility tetralogy nearly petered out after Book 3 but I'm glad I came back to finish the series, albeit ten years later, because this concluding volume is a stunner, a vigorous collision with the built-in destructiveness t ...more
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Drew rated a book it was amazing Wine from These Grapes by Edna St. Vincent Millay	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Is Edna St. Vincent Millay old-fashioned? Sure. What of it. Because her politics sure feel of the moment, what with two sonnets honoring Sacco and Vanzetti, the antihumanist musing within "The Return" and "Apostrophe to Man," and the subsequent epic ...more
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As someone who just saw a revival of "Death of a Salesman" on Broadway and was deeply moved by the production, I was primed to delve into Arthur Miller's memoir recounting his six weeks directing his most-famous play for its premiere in China's capit ...more
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Drew and 1 other person liked pennpenn's review of Periodic Boyfriends: "4/5 “Have I slept with 118 men? Maybe more. Can I name them? Probably half. Surnames too? That number's more like ten. Do the nameless matter? Absolutely.” Raw, messy, and shrewd, PERIODIC BOYFRIENDS is a really clever take on the sonnet form. In Pisarr" Read more of this review »
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Drew rated a book really liked it Roman Nights and Other Stories by Pier Paolo Pasolini	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I kept resisting the idea that Pasolini is like some latter-day Italian variation of Jean Genet but then when the final story ("Rital e raton") shifted the action from Rome to Paris, I thought, well, what if he is. Like Genet, Pasolini has a romantic ...more
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Drew rated a book it was amazing Roderick Hudson by Henry James	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I suspect the books we write when we're young possess a different kind of energy. "Roderick Hudson," Henry James' early novel, feels suspenseful and alive to me even as its central conflict, the fraught friendship between a patron and a sculptor, is ...more
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Drew rated a book really liked it Maximum Gaga by Lara Glenum (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
These ferocious poems had me thinking about language. When we hear "Gaga," should we think pop or pre-verbal? Can we read "trannie" as we did 10 years ago? And what of the many neologisms (polycursal, normacles, voluptorium, runtwort) and the vocab b ...more
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"Re dress" kicks of with a Luce Irigaray quote: "But what if the 'object' started to speak?" which feels appropriate because in this case, the object in question, the book, shows so much care and humanness: the cover design, the color choice, the int ...more
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