Book description
The Agency is the story of a super-secret, Orwellian sexual
network, rife and seething in an America consumed and dehumanised by a
lust for power. It explores issues of erotic dominance and submission
with an immediacy and frankness previously unseen in American
literature. Meltzer's landmark novel confirmed him as one of America's
early masters of the erotic - or, as he dubbed it, 'agit-smut'.
David Meltzer is the author of many works of poetry, and the editor
of various thematic anthologies. Ferlinghetti has described him as being
'among the great poets of his generation'. He is part of the MIX, a
performance ensemble. He was a recipient of the NEA grant in 1994. He
teaches at New College of California.
