>>2847894Notorious is a strong word. There are writings and facts about his life that suggest he was bisexual or gay. His book was scandalous when it came out because it talked a lot of the beauty of the human body, sex, and sensual pleasure in, for the time, lurid terms. He actually got fired from his job at the Bureau of Indian Affairs because his boss read his book and found it filthy, but it’s pretty tame by today’s standards.
Excerpt from A Woman Waits for Me:
Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself,
In you I wrap a thousand onward years,
On you I graft the grafts of the best-beloved of me and America,
The drops I distil upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers,
The babes I beget upon you are to beget babes in their turn,
I shall demand perfect men and women out of my love-spendings,
I shall expect them to interpenetrate with others, as I and you interpenetrate now,
I shall count on the fruits of the gushing showers of them, as I count on the fruits of the gushing showers I give now,
I shall look for loving crops from the birth, life, death, immortality, I plant so lovingly now.
