Author: Vassi, Marco Ferdinand William Vasquez-d'Acugno [1937-1989]
Title: The Stoned Apocalypse
Description: New York, Trident Press, (1972). orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 22x14cm, 250 pp.. Minor rubbing. Some light dustwrapper wear & soil. VG. ¶ Author's memoir of the 1960s: Gurdjieff, Scientology, LSD, Haight-Ashbury, Communes, Anti-Psychiatry, Gay underground, etc. ["Vassi ...was an American experimental thinker and author, most noted for his erotica. He wrote fiction and nonfiction, publishing hundreds of short stories, articles, and more than a dozen novels. Many of his works appeared as " Anonymous" in their first printings. He is most often compared to Henry Miller, has been called the greatest erotic writer of his time and " foremost of his generation," and praised by the likes of Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Saul Bellow, and Kate Millett....He was married three times, but was well known for sexual, drug, and alternative-lifestyle experimentation. He viewed life as the theory and practice of liberation, an exploration of being sexual, that is an all-sexual being, bisexual, and homosexual. Marco Vassi coined the term metasex, which meant any sex outside the bounds of heterosexual marriage. He once wrote (in Beyond Bisexuality)...His biography in the book PoMoSexuals: challenging assumptions about gender and sexuality states, in part: 'Marco Vassi was a literary avatar of the sexual revolution. He was deeply attuned to the politics of sex and sexual orientation, as well as the intersection of sex and spirituality. In his writing, as in his life (until his AIDS diagnosis), he explored fearlessly, bringing back dispatches from sexual frontiers most people never visited.' Vassi helped found the alternative media thinktank RainDance in 1969. He died January 14, 1989 from pneumonia due

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