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Dennis Cooper

Born 1953 (age 54–55)
Pasadena, California
Occupation Novelist, Poet, Critic, Editor, Blogger, and Performance artist
Subjects Sexual fantasy, troubled teenagers, the inadequacy of language
Influences
Influenced

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Career

Cooper grew up the son of a wealthy businessman in Arcadia, California. Arcadia is a US city in Los Angeles County California that is located about northeast of downtown Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley His literary aspirations were explored early on and often took the form of imitations of Rimbaud, Verlaine, de Sade, and Baudelaire. He wrote poetry and stories in his early teens that explored scandalous and often extreme subjects. As a teenager, Cooper was an outsider and the leader of a group of poets, punks, stoners, and writers. After high school he attended Pasadena City College and later Pitzer College where he encountered a poetry teacher who was to inspire him to pursue his writing outside of institutions of higher learning. Pasadena City College (commonly known by the abbreviation PCC) is a Community college located on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, California Pitzer College is a private residential liberal arts college located in Claremont California, a College town approximately east of

In 1976 Cooper went to England to become involved in the nascent punk scene. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland In the same year he began Little Caesar Magazine which included among other things an issue on and dedicated to Rimbaud. In 1978 with the success of the magazine, Cooper was able to found Little Caesar Press which featured the work of, among others, Brad Gooch, Amy Gerstler, Elaine Equi, Tim Dlugos, Joe Brainard, and Eileen Myles. Brad Gooch (born 1952 is an American writer Biography Born and raised in suburban Pennsylvania, he graduated at Columbia University. Amy Gerstler (born in 1956 is an American Poet. Her books of poetry include Ghost Girl (2004 Medicine (2000 - finalist for the Phi Elaine Equi (born 1953 is an American poet. Equi was born in Oak Park, Illinois and grew up in the Chicago area Tim Dlugos was an gay American poet Born in Springfield Massachusetts on August 5, 1950 Francis Timothy Dlugos later grew up in Arlington Virginia Eileen Myles (born 1949 Cambridge Massachusetts) is an American poet

In 1979, Cooper published his first book of poetry, Idols, and became the director of programming at an alternative poetry space, Beyond Baroque, in Venice, California. Venice is a district in western Los Angeles California. It is known for its Canals Beaches and Circus -like Ocean Front Walk, He held that position for three years. Cooper's second book of poetry, Tenderness of the Wolves, published in 1982, was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 1984, Cooper moved to New York City where he experienced the publication of his first book of fiction, a novella titled Safe, and began work on a cycle of five interconnected novels, a project he had been thinking about and planning since the age of 15. In 1987 he moved to Amsterdam where he finished writing the first novel in what would later be called the George Miles Cycle, Closer which later won the first Ferro-Grumley Prize for gay literature. Amsterdam (pronounced) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west LGBT literature is an all encompassing term for Literature produced by people who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender, or which

While in Amsterdam he also wrote articles for different American magazines including Art in America, The Advocate, the Village Voice and others. The Advocate ( is a US -based LGBT -related biweekly Newsmagazine. This article is about a New York newspaper For the Ottawa Hills Ohio magazine see The Village Voice of Ottawa Hills. He returned to New York in 1987 and began writing articles and reviews for Artforum, eventually becoming a Contributing Editor of the magazine. Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in Contemporary art. He began working on his next novel, Frisk. In the next few years Cooper worked on several different art and performance projects including co-curating an exhibit at LACE with Richard Hawkins entitled AGAINST NATURE: A Group Show of Work by Homosexual Men. Located in Hollywood, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE is a nonprofit exhibition space and archive of the Visual arts for the city of Los Angeles

After moving to Los Angeles from New York in 1990, Cooper collaborated with a number of artists, including composer John Zorn, painter Lari Pittman, sculptors Jason Meadows and Nayland Blake, and others. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance John Zorn (born September 2 1953 in Queens, New York City) is an American Avant-garde Composer, arranger, Record Painting (pān'tīng in Art, is the practice of applying Color to a Surface (support base such as e For several years, he was a Contributing Editor and regular writer for the rock music magazine Spin. In 1994, he founded the "Little House on the Bowery" imprint for the independent publisher Akashic Books, which has published works by Travis Jeppesen, Richard Hell, Trinie Dalton, Benjamin Weissman, Derek McCormack and others. Travis Jeppesen (born September 4 1979 in Fort Lauderdale Florida) is an American novelist poet and art critic Richard Hell (born Richard Meyers; October 2, 1949) is an American Singer, Songwriter, Bass guitarist He completed his ten years in the writing 'George Miles Cycle' with the novel Period in the year 2000. The cycle has been translated into 17 foreign languages. Since then he has written three novels: My Loose Thread, The Sluts (winner of the 2007 Prix Sade in France, and winner of the Lammy Award for best book of gay fiction of 2005), and God Jr. .

Since the summer of 2005, Cooper has spent most of his time in Paris, France. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. While there, he has worked on his blog, which Cooper considers his current major artistic project, and has collaborated with the French theater director Gisele Vienne and composer Peter Rehberg on four works for the theater, I Apologize (2004), Un Belle Enfant Blonde (2005), KIndertotenlieder (2007), and a stage adaption of his novella Jerk (2008). These theater works have been highly acclaimed and have toured extensively in Europe, the UK, and Asia. While in France, Cooper finished a new book of poetry, The Weaklings, which was published in a limited edition by Fanzine Press in March 2008, and a collection of short fiction titled Ugly Man that will be published by Harper Perennial in 2009.

Influence

Cooper's work has been acknowledged as an influence on a number of younger American writers, including Travis Jeppesen, Tony O'Neill and Noah Cicero [1]. Travis Jeppesen (born September 4 1979 in Fort Lauderdale Florida) is an American novelist poet and art critic Tony O'Neill is a New York based musician and author A one time musician with Kenickie (1997-8 Marc Almond (1997-1998 The Brian Jonestown Massacre Noah Cicero (born 1980 is an American novelist short-story writer and poet

George Miles cycle

In the spring of 2000 Cooper published Period, the last of a series of five novels known as the George Miles cycle (ISBNs refer to the Grove Press paperback editions):

"… [I]n the ninth grade Cooper met his beloved friend George Miles. Frisk is a 1991 Novel by Dennis Cooper. In 1995 the book was made into a film of the same name directed by Todd Verow. Miles had deep psychological problems and Cooper took him under his wing. Years later, when Cooper was 30, he had a brief love affair with the 27-year-old Miles. The cycle of books … came later, and were an attempt by Cooper to get to the bottom of both his fascination with sex and violence and his feelings for Miles. "
      — 3:AM magazine, November 2001, "American Psycho: An Interview With Dennis Cooper" by Stephen Lucas [2]

"George in Closer, whose room is full of Disney figures, himself becomes the toy of two forty-year-old men obsessed with the beauty of pain and suffering. In Frisk, an ex-friend is writing Julian letters: reports or fantasies of sex and violence. Frisk is a 1991 Novel by Dennis Cooper. In 1995 the book was made into a film of the same name directed by Todd Verow. The description of the sexual murdering of young men is a melange of blood and slippery internal organs, too unappetizing to quote. The letters are being sent from a Holland windmill, in its isolation an ideal place for exploring the raw reality of sex, violence and death. "
      — VPRO Television; article in Dutch [3]

Other books

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Poetry


Miscellaneous

Works written for the theater

Editor

Works about Dennis Cooper

External links

Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in Contemporary art.
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