Mama's Boy: Gay Men Write About Their Mothers [Paperback]

Dean Kostos (Editor), Eugene Grygo (Editor)

Product Details

• Paperback: 260 pages
• Publisher: Painted Leaf Pr; 1st edition (April 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1891305204
• ISBN-13: 978-1891305207
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,105,988 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dean Kostos is the author of Rivering (forthcoming in 2012 from Spuyten Duyvil); Last Supper of the Senses (Spuyten Duyvil); The Sentence That Ends with a Comma, which was required reading for a course in poetics at Duke University (Painted Leaf); and the chapbook Celestial Rust (Red Dust). He also edited the anthology Pomegranate Seeds: An Anthology of Greek-American Poetry (Somerset Hall). Its debut reading was held at the UN. He co-edited the anthology of personal essays Mama's Boy: Gay Men Write about Their Mothers, a Lambda Book Award finalist (Painted Leaf).

His poems, personal essays, and translations have appeared in over 250 publications, including on Oprah Winfrey's Web site Oxygen.com, in Bayou Magazine, Barrow Street, Big City Lit, Boulevard, Borderlines, Chelsea, The Chiron Review, Cimarron Review, Cincinnati Review, Confrontation, The Dos Passos Review, The Dirty Goat, Ekphrasis, Euphony, The Griffin, Minnetonka Review, New Madrid, Owen Wister Review, Poetry in Performance, Porcupine, Rattapallax, Reading Brokeback Mountain (anthology), Red Rock Review, The Same, Southwest Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Stand Magazine (UK), Stranger at Home (anthology), Talisman, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Vanitas, Western Humanities Review, and Zone 3.

His Web site is deankostos.com.