In his memoir Coming Unbuttoned (1993), Broughton recounts his childhood, reflects on his work, and remarks on his love affairs with both men and women. Among his male lovers were gay activist Harry Hay and publisher Kermit Sheets. In 1962, Broughton married Suzanna Hart. The couple was divorced in 1978. On Christmas Eve 1976, Broughton celebrated his relationship with artist Joel Singer in a marriage ceremony. Eschewing the labels homosexual, heterosexual, and bisexual, the poet and filmmaker describes himself as a "pansexual androgyne." This witty and impudent confession is the work of a cultural pioneer whose adventures among the famous and the infamous extend from New York circles of the '30s to the avant-garde antics of San Francisco in the '60s and '70s. Born a gleeful poet in a solemn family, James Broughton survived military school, Stanford University, the merchant marine and journalism before his passion for cinema and his dedication to poetry crystallized in 1948 with his first book and the first of his many films. In the '50s he worked in London and Paris; and for many years he occupied a special place in the San Francisco Bay Area as a performer, playwright and professor. In "Coming Unbuttoned" Broughton shares intimate memories of Anais Nin, Alan Watts, Robert Duncan, Maya Deren, Jean Cocteau, W.H. Auden, Pauline Kael, Kenneth Rexroth, Robinson Jeffers, and the poets of the Beat Generation.

Coming Unbuttoned

Biographies & Memoirs

BROUGHTON, James

Arts & Literature

City Lights Publishers

A Long Undressing: Collected Poems 1949-1969

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Jargon Society

Nonfiction: Psychology / Gay Studies "THE ANDROGYNE JOURNAL is probably the most important and certainly the most tenderly intimate record of transformation we are likely ever to encounter. In a highly charged and richly readable prose, this great poet tells of a momentous summer when Hermes and Aphrodite reenacted their mythic courtship and consummation in the sensory theater of his own very real body. As readers, we witness the drama with a growing awareness that this alchemist of ecstasy is passing along to us a vital key to our own unfolding" -- James Leo Herlihy, author of Midnight Cowboy.

The Androgyne Journal

Broken Moon Press

Poetry. Gay &amp; Lesbian Studies. HOOPLAS are festive tributes to friends and intimates of the author, who salutes their talents and personalities with song, fanfare and wit. These odes for odd occasions are offered in praise of friendship, in memory of merriment, and in awe of love. James Broughton is a native Californian who has been since 1948 a luminary of the San Francisco scene for his lively achievements in poetry and filmmaking. He has produced some twenty books and as many independent films, has been the recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, two grants from the NEA, a James D. Phelan award and a Cannes Film Festival award. He has been a lifelong supporter of heroes, angels, muses, clowns and chefs.

Hooplas: Odes for Odd Occasions

Pennywhistle Press

Companion to the rare classic James Broughton film of the same name (filmed at an early Radical Faerie gathering).  The book contains the poetry recited in the film.  A key work of the Radical Faerie cannon (alongside the work of Harry Hay, and the publishing efforts of the RFD and White Crane magazines).

Shaman Psalm

Syzygy Pr

Graffiti for the Johns of Heaven

SYZYGY

Inscribed and signed by author. This book shows minimal signs of wear, otherwise cover and text are clean and unmarked.

Ecstasies;

Syzygy Press

Poetry by Broughton, paintings by Garwood; published in an edition of 2000 paperbound copies.

Ecstasies

History & Criticism

Small Pr Distribution

This collection of poetry showcases the work of "the heartiest and most enthusiastic celebrant since Whitman" (Jim Cory). Above all, James Broughton delights in pleasures of body and soul - but perhaps especially those of the body - with wit and charm. As Rain Taxi writes, "Broughton's is a poetry of revelation, not obfuscation. . . . Each poem is a celebration and a call to offset the putrefaction of complacency with a bit of devilishness."

Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996

Black Sparrow Press

From Kirkus Reviews paper 1-57423-052-2 Fifty years of poetry is here distilled into one fat volume by the West Coast filmmaker best known for the avant-garde classic Loony Tom (1951). Wildly indiscriminate, Broughton clings to a grab-bag mysticism throughout his career, and, like his mentor, Blake, he celebrates innocence in childlike ditties and develops a self-referential mythology thats at times impenetrable. Deliberately archaic, and full of sing-song repetition, Broughtons fractured nursery rhymes and street jingles are, at best, the charming ephemera of a self-described amorist who later proclaims, I am Polly Morphus, as if we didnt know, what with endless verse extolling Nipples and Cocks, the joys of fellatio, and all his other pagan appetites (including an expert ode to the phallus). But Broughtons boho goofiness, while charming in his early work, devolves into commonplace hippie grooviness (Nourish your bliss). A Whitmanesque catalogue of scenes from old L.A. (I Remember Los Angeles) stands out among the reams of self-indulgent and facile doggerel. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Product Description The theme of this copious selection from fifty years of James Broughton's poetry is Eros Ascendant and Transcendent. Since that's been Broughton's central theme all along, it's fair to say this book comprises his essential poetic testament.

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Coming Unbuttoned

A Long Undressing: Collected Poems 1949-1969

The Androgyne Journal

Hooplas: Odes for Odd Occasions

Shaman Psalm

Graffiti for the Johns of Heaven

Ecstasies;

Ecstasies

Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996

Packing Up for Paradise: Selected Poems 1946-1996