From The Gay & Lesbian Review, a review of The Mirror of the Self: Sexuality, Self-Knowledge, and the Gaze in the Early Roman Empire by Shadi Bartsch; heroes in the culture wars: A review of Shameless: Sexual Dissidence in American Culture by Arlene Stein; a review of Tennessee Williams: Memoirs; “Kinsey and I thought very much alike”: An interview with Gore Vidal, author of Point to Point Navigation; proof that poetry can be about assholes: a review of The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, 1937-1952 and Collected Poems, 1947-1997 by Allen Ginsberg, and I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg by Bill Morgan.

From The Liberal, poetry was for Bertolt Brecht something he did on the side, almost a vice, a peccadillo. He didn't want it to be his living, but was helpless

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