Max R here again. Idly pursuing Colin Leslie Dean, I find his publisher is
Gamahucher Press, West Geelong, books dated 2005 and 2006 (British Library
catalogue).
Now then! what does Gamahucher signify?
Here's a few sentences from Doubledarepress's website...
Gamahucher has been writing erotic poetry for a number of years. Gamahucher,
derrived from gamahuch, is an English erotic underground term of the 19th
century meaning pussy licker or cock sucker. Thus gamahucher purposly leaves the
e gender of gamahucher in doubt
so as to not influence the reader/reciter in his or her appreciation or
interpretation of the poems. Thus the reader/reciter is free to genderize the
poems -which in some cases are left vauge or are androgynous- and thus multipule
interpretations are possible depending upon the gender of the reader/ reciter.
The poems are meant to be recited, not read in silence, as the poems full
hypnotic and lyric effects cannot be felt unless recited The poems are
influenced by the
imagist poets as well as Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Swinburne and the fin de siecle
What gamahucher likes in poetry is strong images with a lyrical or melliflerous
melody, the poems should sing and the images explode in the mind By using
language in a poetic and melliferous manner and assaulting the reader with the
obscene, the shocking, the unexpected, and unimaginable gamahucher seeks to jolt
the reader is jolted into simultaneous juxtaposition of loathing and pleasure.
This emotional ambivalence and corresponding cognitive dissonance, or in other
words mental stress or angst is meant to break up the bourgeoisie conventional
sets of classification and categories and thus unsettle the utility, sobriety
and normality of their everyday lives.
Now that should rouse you etymologists...no?
Quoting Max Richards <[log in to unmask]>:
> When I read the below, I had to reply No, Colin Leslie Dean is not known to
> me,
> nor his books.
> This Sally person having roused my curiosity has yet to tell me more.
>
> Help, anyone?
>
> Max ...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sally [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Sat 6/24/2006 12:03 AM
> To: Maxwell Richards
> Subject: Research
>
> Hello Mr Richards
>
> In researching Australian poets at the State Library of Victoria and
> National
> liobrary of Australia and the British library I found only one Australian
> poet
> listed publishing erotic poetry he has 25 books of erotic poetry published
> in
> Australia -he is the only one listed at the BL and SLV and NLA under the
> categories erotic poetry australian, erotic poetry Australia- his name is
> Colin Leslie Dean. Have you heard of him and if so have you any opinion
> thankfully yours
> sally
>
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