I heard about this book reading an interview with Samuel Delany about literary pornography or pornographic literature, which he himself is a writer of. He mentions a time in the late 60’s when a publisher Essex House reached out to poets and literary fiction writers for erotic works with the only requirement being that the works focused on sex in someway. This cover image is of the 1st edition of poet David Meltzer’s contribution and I love the mix of pulp aesthetic with a kind of hallucinogenic surrealist art on the cover. I’m fascinated by the mix of “low” and “high” cultures both reflected in the cover art and in the work itself. Generally, through my work on Samuel Delany I’ve been compelled by the similarities between erotica and science fiction and the ways Delany draws out how these genres both touch on the limits of language and the potential of the “paraliterary”.