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"IN THE FLESH - undressing for
success" by Gavin Geoffrey Dillard
Barricade Books, Hardcover
Available signed by the author and priority mailed for $25.00 from:
Bhakti Books
POB 1208
Ha'iku, Hawai'i 96708
1-808-573-1936
>From the cover of IN THE FLESH:
At first I thought Gavin's book was Becky Sharp meets The Little Prince,
but as I read on, unable to stop myself from his headlong prose and
gripping life story, I realized that Dillard was after more important game.
[In the Flesh]accurately and devastatingly details a brief golden era of
American life in which the living was so high and free and hard there are
few survivors. At the same time the book is a moving spiritual biography,
simultaneously interpreting and illustrating how one man truly transcended
those times. - Felice Picano
A titillating account if ever there was one, sure to mortify the prudent
- and edify the licentious! Such honesty will never go unremembered - send
a copy to Senator Helms with my regards. I relished every explicit word.
- Quentin Crisp
It was sex, drugs, and disco dancing. And the strobe lights were
focused on Gavin Geoffrey Dillard - young, gorgeous, and gay. The
bathhouses were packed, pleasure was the top priority, and nobody had heard
of AIDS.
Gavin Dillard's story, frankly and vividly told, is of the
wealthiest and most famous of the Hollywood scene, but it is also of baking
bread in a Virginia monastery, chumming with flying saucers, channeling
disembodied spooks, and searching for spiritual enlightenment with a
bizarre cult.
Gavin came from a rural Southern family that could have taken up
several hours on the Jenny Jones show. He fled as soon as he could and
thumbed his way to Los Angeles, where at Cal-Arts he ended up suite-mates
with Paul "PeeWee Herman" Rubens.
But young Gavin found he could learn a lot more off-campus,
cruising with his rich friend, Craig, hitting the bars, cleansing their
brains with LSD, and living in a lane faster than most Americans could have
imagined.
Then, in the great Hollywood tradition, Gavin was "discovered" and
landed the starring role - in a porno film. Suddenly he was in a world
where fluffers weren't for plumping pillows and getting prepared was more
than learning your lines. His billboard was featured on La Cienga
Boulevard, and some of the most powerful men in the industry wanted his
number.
[In The Flesh] is a riveting, unabashed chronicle not just of
Dillard's own sexploits, spiritual journeys, and artistic endeavors, but of
every cultural wave and passing fad to hit America in the past 30 years.
Wild and breathtaking, sexy and inspiring, sometimes hilarious, other times
dark, it's a harrowing portrait of the 70's and 80's - and a one-of-a-kind
autobiography of a man who took those years by storm.
Also available from Bhakti Books:
BETWEEN THE CRACKS: The Daedalus Anthology of Kinky Verse
edited and with photos by Gavin Dillard
available signed and priority mailed for $20.00
>From the lascivious satire of Catullus to the obsessions of Michelangelo,
the fetishes of Edna St Vincent Millay to the faunal fantasies of DH
Lawrence, the howling of Ginsberg and the beats to the sultry slammers of
modern-day San Francisco, poet/photographer Gavin Geoffrey Dillard has
collected the most exotic of the erotic of the poetic pantheon, lest any
further clues be lost between the cracks.
YELLOW SNOW
The most recent poems of Gavin Dillard in an 8 1/2 x 11" format with
delicious nudes of the author by photographer Jack Shear
available signed and priority mailed for $15.00
"He pursues romance across the country with brazen delicacy and learns the
hazards of passion... With such energy he could just as well pilot an
anarchist revolution, open a three ring circus, or lead an expedition to
liberate Boystown."
- from the introduction by James Broughton
(cover censored for pre-firewall uncensored behind firewall)
THE NAKED POET
Collected poems of Gavin Dillard from 1970 to 1985
available signed and priority mailed for $10.00
"Love in all its multiple forms is the hero here. And hate is the enemy.
Gavin Dillard writes with his heart and his glands. If Eros is a god, Gavin
is more than a suppliant. He is a muse who amuses, the laureate of the
sensual: a rare and special poet."
- Jerome Lawrence
Bhakti Books
POB 1208
Ha'iku, Hawai'i 96708
1-808-573-1936
Except from Gavin's Bio "In The Flesh"
Non-explicit images of Gavin
Explicit
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