reverberations re­ veal the lilt, rant, and soulful squawk of this novel as a feisty, worldly song of himself by ... Portnoy-novel or poem-is all yelp, written as a single shout from start to finish, a vocally 159 Issue 126 page ... "Who used to suck us all off?," p. 175 who wins an argument with a hard-on], p. 128 ...

Achaian men, What would Troy alone be worth to you? The sea and Homer both-all moves by force of love. To ... whom should I attend? Even Homer's silent now, And now the dark sea roars rhetorically Its billowy ... Translator's note: No rhymes nor any concessions to the geniuses who can read the preceding and need the work ...

abstract, seem pompous, naive, didactic (all very unfashionable) and, paradoxical as it may sound, lacking ... so far. His books and poems, I must believe, will far outlast the nonsense that comes of (willful?) ... yes, and even though I may have been guilty of writing some lyrical sex, I think I always undercut it ...