This edition is out of print, but the book is now available in a two-volume edition.

Ode To Boy: An Anthology Of Same-sex Attraction In Literature From Antiquity Through The First World War

Keith Hale

Watersgreen House

By turns funny, romantic, erotic, and sad, this evocative novel brilliantly recreates the landscape of late adolescence, when friendships seem eternal and loves reincarnate. Set in Arkansas but first published in Amsterdam under the title Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada, Cody quickly won praise from reviewers and readers across Europe and North America. The book is so beautiful, brave, and ahead of its time that it even caught the attention of William S. Burroughs. Cody remains remarkably current and continues to be unique in coming of age literature.

Cody: Clicking Beat On The Brink Of Nada

Ode to Boy, Vol. 2 is a refreshingly readable collection of literature devoted to same-sex attraction from the 19th Century through the war poets. Includes works from James Silk Buckingham, Lord Byron, Disraeli, Gogol, Thoreau, Melville, Whitman, Bayard Taylor, Ernst Haeckel, John Addington Symonds, Henry James, Stanley Lane-Poole, Wilde, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Housman, Cather, Stein, Thomas Mann, Renee Vivien, Forster, D.H. Lawrence, H.D., Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Lawrence of Arabia, and Wilfred Owen. Hale's introductions to the authors are to the point and sometimes witty, specifying why the author or work is included in the volume and sometimes providing a larger biographical scope.

Ode To Boy: Vol. 2:  An Anthology Of Same-sex Attraction In Literature From The 19th Century Through The First World War

Freshman composition instructors will not find a more affordable basic textbook for their cash-strapped students. This book focuses on total literacy, with emphasis given to reading comprehension of increasingly challenging texts. Includes short stories by Poe, de Maupassant, London, Mansfield, Chekhov, Bierce, Chopin, Joyce, Gibran, Cather, Luke Hartwell, and Vonnegut, poetry by Dickinson, Housman, Sassoon, Owen, Yeats, St. Vincent Millay, Frost, Barrett Browning, Byron, Poe, Whitman, and Shakespeare, and instruction on writing personal narratives, brainstorming activities, what is not appropriate in undergraduate papers, suggestions for effective peer editing, logical fallacies, samples of MLA citations, a works cited exercise, a sample MLA-style paper, as well as rubrics and checklists for various types of writing.

Reading and Writing in Freshman English

Michael Wilson

Rainbow Award winner Atom Heart John Beloved chronicles the lives of two boys who become friends at age thirteen. The story is told by eighteen-year-old John, who quietly whispers to his best friend one night in bed, "Do me." This novel is a breathtaking love story and an intense coming of age story that resembles no other book. John's narrative voice is one of the most unique in gay literature. Atom Heart John Beloved is literate, intimate, erotic, and delightful, delivering unexpected moments of grace. 
"This novel is good . . . disturbingly good." - Elisa Rolle, Elisa Reviews 
"A refreshing novel that makes one feel alive again." - Rainbow Awards 
"A brilliant, funny and disturbingly honest look at teen sexuality, sensibilities, and fantasies." - The Wilde Writers Collective

Atom Heart John Beloved

Literature & Fiction

Hartwell, Luke

Literary

Rupert Brooke: The Bisexual Brooke

Biographies & Memoirs

Hale, Keith

Arts & Literature

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