Binding the God: Ursine Essays from the Mountain South
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (753 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1590212193 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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take a walk on the appalachian sidea wild read !! dan I first found Jeff's writing in masters of midnight, a gay vampire themed anthology and said, hey, i gotta read more of this guy.and so i have been and must say that the stories in binding the god are some of the best i've ever readif you've never been to the appalachian mountain area, you sure will be when you read this booki really enjoyed descriptions of good southern food, sexy mountain men, eccentric friends and family, and some true heart-felt feelings of jeff's he so lyrically and boldly shares with his readers.a great . Sarah Hasty Williams said The very definition of artistic authenticity!. This is a work of absolute guileless honesty. It is as if Jeff Mann has carved a window in his body to allow us to peer in and touch the essence that makes him who he is. This sort of courage and risk is what makes an artist of any medium great. The artist opens and communicates truth in both emotional and intellectual as well as poignantly personal expression. We hear, see, receive and expand our own minds, emotions and intellect in response. Thank You Jeff!. "lovin me some jeff mann" according to Dustin Merton. this was a great follow up to his previous essays in edge. the best thing i can say about the writings of mr mann is their honesty and transparency. there is something reassuring about reading about a man so comfortable with himself. i never have to wonder what mann is thinking about. he lays it all bare right there on the page. he is a complex man and all of his complexities come across clearly. people would be so much better off if they took the time to analyze and accept the real person inside of them, the way i feel mann d
A much lauded essayist and poet, Jeff Mann writes of the passion and pain of being a Southern gentleman who happens to be invested in many worlds: the hungers of gay Bear culture; the propensities of leather and bondage; the frustrations of academia; and the perspectives of an Appalachian who has traveled the world. In Binding the God, his second collection of essays, Mann offers readers another tour of his consciousness and experiences. This volume includes essays previously published in Arts and Letters, Second Person Queer, Callaloo, Now and Then, White Crane, Queer and Catholic, and other journals and anthologies.
Jeff Mann grew up in Covington, Virginia, and Hinton, West Virginia, receiving degrees in English and forestry from West Virginia University. His poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in many publications, including The Spoon River Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Laurel Review, The Gay
These essays reflect Mann's other literary abilities; the language is poetic, and the erotic passages burn hot: they are relatively few, but they are highly charged. Rather than set two diminished concepts against one another--say, sex and spirituality, with the nuance and nourishment boiled out of them by facile posturing--Mann looks to a broader focus that allows all of his aspects (and, by extension, all of the elements of any human being) to jostle, compete, reinforce or cancel out. --John Bradford for the GLBT Roundtable of the American Library Assoc. The essays in Binding the God will do the same for the urbane and sophisticated, the slender and smooth-chested, and the A-list gays, and will remind us all that the GLBT community and GLBT culture is everywhere. They also contain a deep and melodic religious resona