Andrew V. Zourides

Venerated Objects Andrew V. Zourides

In my twenties, I started to write poetry in the late 1970's and I found it to be a healing force and an expressive outlet, more than my daily occupation as an artist and designer. My poems have been published in Provincetown Magazine, selected by my friend and poet, Dennis Rhodes. My erotic short stories were published monthly in the Lambda Classic Car publication, The Turnpike Cruiser. Both venues were completed in the years I lived there from 1997 to 2003. My mother, Theresa, was also influential in my interest in prose, as her poems were beautifully written and heartfelt. The collection of poems reflects on an isolated childhood growing up gay in New York City during a conservative era of the 1950's and early 1960's. Others deal with personal losses, and directly about the people who have made an important difference in my life. I've included in addition to the poems, fictional stories of an erotic nature concerning men and their long term, and also fleeting, relationships. Some are poignant tales, some mystical and ironic. All tie in with their love affair with vintage cars that are set in a time span from the 1950's to the Millenium.