Ode to Boy: Same-Sex Affection in Verse from Antiquity Through the First World War is a collection of poetry devoted to same-sex attraction. The volume includes works by Homer, Solon, Sappho, Anacreon, Theognis, Pindar, Callimachus, Meleager, Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Strato, Agathius, Abu Nuwas, Rumi, Sa'di, Hafiz, Michelangelo, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Richard Barnfield, Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, Anna Seward, Lord Byron, Whitman, Bayard Taylor, Samuel Butler, Housman, Renee Vivie...

Volume One is a refreshingly readable collection of literature devoted to same-sex attraction from the ancient Greeks through the Eighteenth Century. Includes works from Homer, Solon, Sappho, the Old Testament, Anacreon, Theognis, Pindar, Plato, Xenophon, Callimachus, Meleager, Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Petronius, Plutarch, Ovid, Aelian, Strato, Agathius, Rumi, Hafiz, Michelangelo, Montaigne, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Richard Barnfield, Katherine Philips, Aphra Behn, and Anna Seward. Hale's in...

By turns funny, romantic, erotic, and sad, this evocative novel brilliantly recreates the landscape of late adolescence, when friendships seem eternal and loves reincarnate. Set in Arkansas but first published in Amsterdam, Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada (published in the U.S. as Cody) quickly won praise from reviewers and readers across Europe and North America. So beautiful, brave, and ahead of its time that William S. Burroughs was an early fan, Clicking Beat

By turns funny, romantic, erotic, and sad, this evocative novel brilliantly recreates the landscape of late adolescence, when friendships seem eternal and loves reincarnate. Set in Arkansas but first published in Amsterdam, Clicking Beat on the Brink of Nada (published in the U.S. as Cody) quickly won praise from reviewers and readers across Europe and North America. So beautiful, brave, and ahead of its time that William S. Burroughs was an early fan, Clicking Beat remains remarkably curr...

A high school senior in small town Arkansas finds a new boy in class on the first day of school--a handsome exchange student from Turkey whose presence in town causes a stir. As the friendship develops, hearts and minds are stirred as well, especially when the young Turk attempts to teach his new American friend the traditional Turkish sport of oil wrestling. Keith Hale, author of the acclaimed novel Cody, delivers a young adult short story that also will find an audience with adu...

Keith Hale wrote poetry from the age of fourteen until the age of twenty-four. Many poems were destroyed over the years by fire, typhoon (Paka), tornado, or landfill. The following is a selection of his surviving poems*.* Most are poems he sent to his brother, Steve, when Keith was twenty and Steve was eighteen and serving in the U.S. Army in Germany. Steve kept his copies; thus, they were spared the destruction visited on the poems Keith possessed himself. In his only public poetry readin...

Rupert Brooke of Rugby, revised 2nd edition, contains biography and commentary as well as Brooke's poetry, prose, and photographs. The edition includes Keith Hale's complete Rupert Brooke: The Bisexual Brooke, Updated and Expanded Edition, Brooke's Collected Poems with introductions by Margaret Lavington and George Edward Woodberry, and Brooke's Letters from America with an introduction by Henry James.When Rupert Brooke died of blood poisoning on his way to fight the Turkish forces...

Keith Hale, editor of Friends & Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke and James Strachey, 1905-1914, here examines the bowdlerization of Brooke in existing biographies and looks into the poet's self-proclaimed bisexual identity. Hale examines the same-sex relationships Brooke enjoyed with Michael Sadleir, Charles Lascelles, and Denham Russell-Smith as well as the poems Brooke may have written about these early loves. As with many boys of his generation, Brooke's public sch...

Yusuf Parish Jimmy: Two stories from the Heart of Texas and one from the Arkansas Delta collects three of Keith Hale's shorter works of fiction into one volume. In "Breathless," a high school senior in small town Arkansas finds a new boy in class on the first day of school--a handsome exchange student from Turkey whose presence in town causes a stir. As the friendship develops, hearts and minds are stirred as well, especially when the young Turk attempts to teach his new American ...

When a young boy at a bowling alley has his cheeseburger delivered by a handsome future air force cadet, an infatuation develops so strong that three years later, when he learns the older boy's home town, he sets off on his bike to find him. The relationship that develops between the two boys is one of the most heart-warming and seductive in coming of age literature. Keith Hale, the author of Cody known for his honest portrayals of young adult lives and sexuality, has written a be...

Keith Hale explores the relationship between gay and straight best friends in this sparse, moving story. Chris has been in love with his best friend Jimmy since childhood. While Chris is at college, Jimmy is sent to prison. Now Jimmy is free once more and the two meet again. Chris, or "Topi," as Jimmy calls him, begins to understand that Jimmy is not the only one who has made mistakes. With eyes wide open, both men re-examine their friendship.Watersgreen House is an independent int...

A collection of romantic poems Byron wrote for John Edleston, Lord Clare, Earl Delawarr, Lucas Chalandrutsanos, and other boys. The collection spans Byron's life. Some poems for Edleston, Clare, and Delawarr were among the earliest verse he wrote; the poems to Chalandrutsanos were his very last. Selected and introduced by Keith Hale.Watersgreen House is an independent international book publisher with editorial staff in the UK and USA. One of our aims at Watersgreen House is to sho...