Perry Brass

“... something as close to being in love as he would ever get was hitting him. . . Just watching John, a vast, powerful electrical charge hit him. It was stupendous. He was outrageously in love with him.” Carnal Sacraments, 2007. “A pioneer of gay literature” (ForeWord magazine), poet/novelist/playwright and activist Perry Brass has published 19 books including How to Survive Your Own Gay Life, The Harvest, Angel Lust, Warlock, The Substance of God, and Carnal Sacraments, A Historical Novel of the Future—“one of the most unusual novels I’ve read in years,” said Bay Area Reporter. His latest book is The Manly Pursuit of Desire and Love; latest novel King of Angels, A Novel About the Genesis of Identity and Belief, finalist for a Ferro-Grumley Award from the Ferro-Grumley Foundation. He has been featured in 30 anthologies, taught workshops, and his more than 70 collaborations with composers have been performed at Carnegie Hall and in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, and Tokyo. He blogs for the Huffington Post and lives in the Bronx. www.perrybrass.com