From: Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 05:01:21 -0800 Subject: Telling the Beads: Sonnets QRD: Please post this in QRD/media/books. Thanks, MSM ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Consider this for your local library or your personal collection. The book's "Author-provided cataloging information" reads: Montgomery, M. S. (Michael Stewart), 1948- Telling the beads : sonnets / M. S. Montgomery 74 p. ; 23 cm. ISBN 0-932616-50-X (paper) 1. Gay men--Poetry. 2. Bisexual men--Poetry. 3. AIDS (Disease)--Poetry. I. Title. 94-067396 From the back cover: "M. S. Montgomery . . . was born in Galveston, Texas, and educated at Columbia, UConn, and Illinois. A professional academic librarian and bibliographic activist, he lives with his family in Princeton, New Jersey." Rudy Kikel's blurb: "'I am one whole person,' says the closeted man who resolves on taking his male lover to an office party. _Telling the Beads_--in which he allows us to read _his_--is M. S. Montgomery's party, his developing 'wholeness,' though he brings to it not one but many characters who constitute contemporary gay life--or prey upon it. Shrinking from neither the discipline of his form (the sonnet) nor the imperatives of his loving, M. S. Montgomery is the genuine article--a poet whose witness, whose fervor, and whose fortitude you may find, as I do, that you cannot do without." Jan-Mitchell Sherrill's blurb: "What is most remarkable to me about Montgomery's sonnets is how insistent is the voice which explores its bisexuality. That voice is unequivocal." Copies may be purchased for $10 each, plus $1.50 for postage and handling, from New Poets Series, Inc., 541 Piccadilly Rd., Baltimore, MD 21204.