Hang a Kristen Bjorn Classic in Your Home
and have it signed by Perry Brass!

All Men Poster 

Nothing like a  classic Kristen Bjorn image in your home
to add a little warmth, nostalgia, and romance to your life.
 
        The year was 1987. Poet/writer Perry Brass produced "ALL MEN," a full length two-man show (or "Structuralist Performance Piece" in the jargon of the era) taken from 20 years of his writing, with poems going back to his teens, excerpts from plays, and a performance of a haunting short story, "The Cold," that would later be included in his collection Works and Other "Smokey George" Stories.

        ALL MEN was done in Los Angeles at the "Purple Festival" as part of the Los Angeles Fringe Theater Festival, in Chicago through Lionheart Gay Theater, and Off-Off Broadway at Wings Theatre Company in Greenwich Village.

        To go along with the show, Perry Brass commissioned a poster, with a gorgeous image by a new, just discovered photographer from Brazil, Kristen Bjorn. The poster was striking, with the kind of lush, romantic male imagery that fit perfectly an age of romantic images. If you've been yearning to go back to a warmer, more inviting period of gay culture, this poster will bring it back to you, even if only in fantasy. 

    Copies of this beautiful poster are still available on a limited basis. Posters are 17" X 22", on heavy stock. $20.00 per poster + $5.00 for postage and handling. Each poster is immediately suitable for framing or mounting, and each poster will be individually signed in pencil by Perry Brass. You can only get copies of this poster directly from Belhue Press:
Belhue Press
2501 Palisade Avenue, Suite A1
Bronx, NY  10463
    Please make your check(s) out to "Belhue Press." For visitors to PerryBrass.com, Belhue Press will throw in FREE a copy of Sex-charge, Perry's first book of poetry, with gorgeous erotic images by noted photographer Joe Ziolkowski.

    

    "I got the title of the show from a poem I'd written in 1971 that was later published in Angels of the Lyre, Winston Leyland's  ground-breaking 1975 anthology of gay male poetry. 'In loving you' was really about my infatuation with virtually every guy I'd see on the street, with being young, gay, and alive to New York in the early liberation-soaked 70s. It was originally published in Gay Sunshine, an underground gay paper from the early 70s that contained the first gay interviews with many celebrities like Allen Ginsberg, Ned Rorem, and Gore Vidal. 'In loving you' struck a real chord.The poem was so crazy, so late 60s-early 70s, filled with the zany wonder of coming out, of young men falling in love on the streets, of those "rainbow-eyed, flower-heads" of liberation who are still with us, no matter what age they are.

In loving you

In loving you
I have loved all men.
I see them walking down the street
rainbow-eyed,    flower heads
stalk-necked,     flowers of energy
and I have loved all men loving you
holding your face in my hands
I see all men

but in your face I see
only your eyes

I wanted you to be
what I was not;
I wanted you to bhe friend
and father and lover and adventureful pal,
companion to my sleepless night, evening
fairy wo sneaks up the bedroom stairs
into my waiting nakedneess, when I am tired
of the games and doubts of men.
            ---Perry Brass, 1971.




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