The Odd Purgatory of My Personal Perception: Little Portraits, by Keith Hamilton Cobb
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Short stories about sexual encounters, the energies that conspire to create them, and the energies that are created in their wake. Prose that explore our human endeavors to love. The Odd Purgatory is like no other collection of erotic short fiction. Sometimes the most salient moments in our erotic explorations take no more to delineate than a paragraph or two... At other times, the arc of a traditional story structure is needed. In either case, the collection is more about "being" as opposed to "doing..." and about the space between the words...
The Odd Purgatory of My Personal Perception: Little Portraits, by Keith Hamilton Cobb- Amazon Sales Rank: #1072052 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-10-27
- Released on: 2015-10-27
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author Keith Hamilton Cobb is an actor. While he has spent most of his professional life in the theatre and in television, he is also a writer, a playwright, and a visual artist. He works in several mediums, but is particularly taken with wood and found objects. He calls his pieces “functional objects of art.” This book is his first published collection. You can learn more about his past, present, and future work at www.keithhamiltoncobb.com.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Small Noises and Big Silences By Richard J. Rosendall "It was an intricate negotiation theirs, a delicate arbitrament that could not be efficiently executed by any but the enlightened, and insanely in love.""…staring at the shadow of a bird with wings spread that someone had carved out of the finest remnant of yellow-red hair on the crest of her pubic bone. It looked like a dusting of colored confectioner's sugar stenciled on a cupcake.""…she thought such things as how perhaps it would serve him right were she ten minutes late for taking the time to masturbate with the shower massage."These excerpts are from Keith Hamilton Cobb's collection of short fiction, The Odd Purgatory of My Personal Perception. Cobb takes a cosmopolitan approach reminiscent of Western European television, where one finds programming free of America's smothering and warping puritanism. His stories are a gallery of erotic moments, from seductions and charged awakenings to regret and fresh discovery.Whether you read it in one sitting or in fragments on the metro, you may feel that you have retreated to a mountain cabin or the beach in off-season. Though most of the stories have urban settings, they pull us into a private space away from the abrasions of the background noise most of us inhabit. They awaken our senses to "small noises and big silences," as Cobb puts it.He continually surprises us with vivid glimpses, from a man dipping his finger into a snifter of anisette and feeding it to his lover, to a woman sizing up a potential lover's mouth, to a brief but affecting rant in defense of a woman's small, perfect breasts. With well-chosen detail he captures anxieties, longings, and simple joys, bringing a searching voice that lifts what he observes. Cobb connects us with these characters.The audio book adds another aspect of enjoyment, in that Cobb's quiet reading voice adds an intimate touch perfectly suited to the material. It pulls you in, as if he is propped up on an elbow next to you, reading just to you.During the summer I saw him in a small theater performing his remarkable and compelling one-man play, American Moor, and that experience is quite different. There he was not just talking to a roomful of people; he was at moments declaiming Shakespearian verse, which he does quite well, including a ravishing bit of new material he composed for Desdemona speaking to Othello. Here he is not having to project across a theater space, but is directly beside us.His physical beauty, and his years as a soap opera hunk, make this easy to joke about, but that is unfair to him and his project. The book is not written as auto-erotic accompaniment. Such material is plentiful online, and is as far below the supple and sophisticated language of these stories as a street urchin is below a Shakespearian protagonist.Cobb here is our Virgil, guiding us through an assortment of erotic situations with luminous insight and empathy rather than a pornographer's manipulations. From a pair of young strangers awakening in the morning after their first tryst, to an older man mournfully lifting his lover in his arms at her inevitable departure after a months-long affair, Cobb inhabits each character like the curious and perceptive actor he is. This is a series of explorations, not a celebrity tell-all memoir.One unexpected result of reading Odd Purgatory is that it has taught me to observe my own loves more attentively in my memory, from perspectives I hadn't considered. The animal aspects of lovemaking get a lot more attention in our culture than the inner life that it stirs and changes; Cobb redresses that disparity here. At his best moments he has an elegiac quality, for example when a man in mid-career sees an old friend again and thinks of her talents that went undeveloped because of a different life choice she made:"Had not the urgings of God been romancing you long before that, inseminating your dreams, and filling you with sacred expression? Weren’t you the child? And where did you go? Why were you not born?"The power of such scenes is precisely in that they are faithfully observed moments, not essays in which he argues the case for a particular choice.A wise narrator lets his characters breathe for themselves and lends insights from a lifetime of paying attention. With respect and without prurience, Keith Hamilton Cobb teaches us to be similarly attentive to intimate matters. He brings a thespian's alertness to the electricity that only exists when coursing between and among people. Unlike one character he sensitively describes, he has not spent too much time staring at his own reflection.All in all, this book reveals a fresh yet seasoned voice in a literary achievement that has me wanting more from Mr. Cobb.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. The Astounding Beauty of His Amazing Insight - Do not miss this! By Becky Sharp Let Keith Hamilton Cobb take you on a tour of New York and, by way of this, the human soul in all its flawed, beautiful, selfish, seductive, loving, self-deluded, destructive, creative majesty. Come to Reuben’s bar and hear the tinkling of ice in glasses, see the soft lighting reflected on the liquor bottles and smell Kathryn’s cigarette smoke as you learn about her life. The power of Mr. Cobb’s writing is such that you will swear you were there, unnoticed in a dark corner, eavesdropping on the conversation.Mr. Cobb’s compassion and empathy for his characters: Straight men; gay men; women, people of all ages is both a revelation and a delight.This wonderful book is available in a range of formats but the audio file, read by Mr. Cobb, an accomplished actor and playwright, brings many nuances otherwise left to the reader’s imagination. His beautiful, mellifluous voice takes on the harshness of a Brooklyn native when portraying characters such as Danny, again making you feel like a fly-on-the-wall as you gain insight into the lives of the characters in this amazing collection of short stories. This is jaw-droppingly good. Here’s looking forward to his next book.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Poetic prose - good read By Tim T Simple, wonderful vignettes of our human experience on sex, relationships, and ourselves. Each of the stories are fascinating to read but what I found interesting was within the stories themselves are some great sentences that could stand alone as a small haiku or poem. Enjoyable and powerful read.
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