August 31, 2008

Dildo or Prick? Six or Eight? Terrycloth or Felt?... for that oral history of the Bay Area that I keep having fantasy someone will do.

Ron Silliman in The Grand Piano, part six..
But my favorite image of the Projectivists & their dilemma with the body is of Denise Levertov, the MC at a large, overcrowded antiwar reading at Glide Church in San Francisco, getting hysterical onstage at the sight of the People's Prick, an attendee who turned up in a six-foot-tall bright pink terrycloth dildo costume. p. 9

Aaron Shurin in King of Shadows...
As if on cue, up onto the stage from somewhere in the audience jumped an eight-foot pink felt penis, who grabbed the mike and announced to the crowd that he was "The People's Prick," bouncing around like a giant bunny on LSD. p. 80-81

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