A 50s tale, of two male poets in love with a demanding muse, both willing to do whatever her Dionysian heart desires - three gleeful and wounded hearts at play, sympathetic, engagingly human. For some, the decade played out as an erotically turbulent era. So it was, for poet Elton Gold, who looks back on a life-forming affair in the with intense, queenly Gloria Zissic, a generative figure to him and to his British fellow-poet Andrew Norton as well. They gradually find themselves experimenting with combinations and cohabitations that their conservative university can't allow, as they grow in strength, affection, and wit by insisting on being who they are. Their days together form lifetime patterns for each, their adventures in and out of bed challenging timid norms in a work embellished by the poems of the smitten poets and the formidable powers of Gloria, their muse.
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