Persky, Stan

Autobiography of a Tattoo
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • another fine collection of essays from the author of Buddy's
  • Take Me There!
Autobiography of a Tattoo
Stan Persky
Manufacturer: New Star Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0921586620

Book Description

stories/essays on the pursuit of homosexual desire

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars another fine collection of essays from the author of Buddy's.......2001-06-02

Persky is a very underrated writer in Canada. Partially, this is due to his chosen writing form--essays (although he began as a poet). Essay writing is still considered a dry, academic form in North America but Persky draws upon the more pleasurable personal/philosophical essay tradition of Montaigne and Roland Barthes. He is very open and insightful about his homosexual desires, but it would be a shame if his readership was limited to only those who share his sexual preference(s). Here's hoping that he begins to receive the wider attention he deserves and that he helps revive the essay tradition in North America.

4 out of 5 stars Take Me There!.......2000-07-15

A fascinating hybrid of a philosophical meditation on love and a diary of Berlin summers, Persky's book breaks so many rules to thrilling effect that he should be enshrined as Chief Literary Outlaw. Persky is so fearless in investigating the basis for his feelings about his work, his obsession with a young rent-boy in Berlin and his friends that he virtually dares the reader to become exasperated with his waffling about reaching any premature conclusions. The miracle of his writing (and thought process) is that he keeps us fully engaged in his conversation with himself until exasperation turns into affection and complicity. Persky's love of teaching (he is a professor of philosophy in Vancouver, BC) is clear here both explicitly (he talks about his concern for his students at length) and implicitly (the entire book becomes an example of a unique teaching style). Persky, who is proudly over 60, takes pains to make sure we know that his own libido is exuberantly healthy (bravo!). If he had anything to do with approving the fabulous cover art for the book, he certainly insured that the libido of every reader will be sent into overdrive every time the eye catches the cover.
Delgamuukw: The Supreme Court of Canada Decision on Aboriginal Title (David Suzuki Foundation Series)
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    Delgamuukw: The Supreme Court of Canada Decision on Aboriginal Title (David Suzuki Foundation Series)

    Manufacturer: David Suzuki Foundation
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback

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    ASIN: 1550546570
    Supreme Court of Canada Decision on Abortion
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      Supreme Court of Canada Decision on Abortion
      Stan Persky
      Manufacturer: New Star Books
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Paperback
      ASIN: 0919573851
      Lives of the French symbolist poets
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        Lives of the French symbolist poets
        Stan Persky
        Manufacturer: White Rabbit Press
        ProductGroup: Book
        Binding: Unknown Binding
        ASIN: B0006EN05M
        The Short Version: An ABC Book
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          The Short Version: An ABC Book
          Stan Persky
          Manufacturer: New Star Books
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          Binding: Paperback

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          Accessories:
          1. philosophy hope in a jar daily moisturizer

          ASIN: 1554200164
          Release Date: 2005-08-04

          Book Description

          In a volume inspired by Czeslaw Milosz, Stan Persky appropriates the format of the alphabet book as a springboard for musings both personal and philosophical.

          The Short Version -- which, at 300-plus pages is the author's longest book -- is a literal ABC: Persky covers only topics that begin with those three letters, though he can't resist tweaking the format to include such subjects as Richard Rorty ("Contingency") and Jack Spicer ("After Lorca"). Subjects range from his travels across Eastern Europe and Asia, to reflections on writers of today. Unafraid to topple sacred cows or singlehandedly resuscitate those in undeserved obscurity, the author provides a road map to a public intellectual's mind. Persky's cosmopolitan perspective encompasses Woody Allen's films, Roland Barthes's theories of identity, and Italo Calvino's creation of Mr Palomar. Along the way he covers such matters as the art of teaching as practiced by Persky, his foray into northern British Columbia, and memories of long-ago Gestalt sessions with David Berg.

          Eccentric, engaging, and ultimately inspiring, Persky's alphabet pushes the boundaries of creative nonfiction and the conventions of autobiography. This is uniquely compelling reading courtesy of one of the country's best minds.
          Son of Socred: Has Bill Bennett's government gotten B.C. moving again?
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            Son of Socred: Has Bill Bennett's government gotten B.C. moving again?
            Stan Persky
            Manufacturer: New Star Books
            ProductGroup: Book
            Binding: Paperback

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            ASIN: 0919888895
            Boyopolis: Sex and Politics in Gay Eastern Europe
            Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
            • Slow book about fast changing region!
            Boyopolis: Sex and Politics in Gay Eastern Europe
            Stan Persky
            Manufacturer: Overlook Hardcover
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            Binding: Hardcover

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            ASIN: 0879516909

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            2 out of 5 stars Slow book about fast changing region!.......1997-07-30

            I was dissapointed after being tantalized by the title. I fully expected much more anecdotal evidence that a gay lifestyle exists in Eastern Europe...instead it reinforced the sterotype of a bleak and gray people. Which is not true, Eastern Europe is fascinating and quite gay. Maybe someone will do this subject justice next time around
            The house (convention centre, stadium, rapid transit system, etc.) that Jack built: Mayor Jack Volrich and Vancouver politics
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              The house (convention centre, stadium, rapid transit system, etc.) that Jack built: Mayor Jack Volrich and Vancouver politics
              Stan Persky
              Manufacturer: New Star Books
              ProductGroup: Book
              Binding: Paperback

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              ASIN: 0919888291
              Buddy's: Meditations on Desire
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                Buddy's: Meditations on Desire
                Stan Persky
                Manufacturer: New Star Books
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                Binding: Hardcover

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                ASIN: 0919573908

                Book Description

                Buddy's is a gay bar in Vancouver's West End that opened in the spring of 1982 and closed in the summer of 1988. It was the starting point for this unusually frank and engaging portrait of gay life and gay culture in the late eighties. Shifting effortlessly between autobiography, fiction, and criticism, Buddy's is in turn shocking, erotic, witty, and moving, a study of life in a time of plague.
                Topic Sentence: A Writer's Education
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                  Topic Sentence: A Writer's Education
                  Stan Persky
                  Manufacturer: New Star Books
                  ProductGroup: Book
                  Binding: Paperback

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                  ASIN: 1554200288
                  Release Date: 2007-04-30

                  Authors:

                  1. Perutz, Leo
                  2. Peshkin, Alan
                  3. Pessoa, Fernando
                  4. Peters, Ellis
                  5. Peters, G. D.
                  6. Petrarca, Francesco
                  7. Petrarch
                  8. Pfefferle, W. T.
                  9. Phelan, Tom
                  10. Philips, Katherine

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