Not Just Another Pretty Face

The stories poems and essays in this collection have a single common element uniting their wide range of literary styles and genres: they all spring directly from photographs of go-go boys. The ideal go-go boy is the perfect erotic object. We imagine him as lost or broken so that we might rescue him or as potent and aggressive so that we might be the focus of his desire. But the images captured here suggest deeper more complex realities. These dancers are whimsical haunting satiric playful ominous. They are not objects not icons but stories waiting to be told. Not Just Another Pretty Face plays with the interface of projections: what these young men project in their poses and expressions and what we project on them in return. It explores assumptions prejudices fantasies and revelations. It looks beyond the archetype beneath the skin.