Mutsuo Takahashi
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Listen, I needed something a little less the world is ending yesterday, and when I saw this in the stack I knew this was the one and IT WAS.
Okay, so the book starts out with some poems from his first two collections, written in Takahashi's teens and early twenties. Some of them I found intensely charming in a strange way, a few of them I found baffling, and a handful reminded me strongly of Yukio Mishima's Confessions of a Mask in their mixture of homoerotic longing, violence, and Ancient Greek and other Western Classic imagery.
AND THEN WE GET TO THE ODE.
Ode is a thousand-line epic psalm to the male body. Starting with man as a whole, then wandering into some of the modes and forms of the gay community -- the movie house, the bathhouse, before returning to the male form in loving detail, with long sections for the balls, the foreskin, the sperm (just as examples.)
But! We have a thousand lines to do this in! This is no more anatomical description, but metaphor after metaphor, image packed on image packed on scent, idea, sound... It reminded me of Leaves of Grass in in the lists that go on for pages. Embracing an entire spectrum of masculinity from earthy to grisly to stately to tender.
I could go on and on, but it must be experienced to be believed, and I hope this is enough for you to have some idea of whether this book would be for you.
I have never read anything like it.
I loved it.… (mehr)